Ben Thompson thinking on nature and success-path for Aggregators.

Ben Thompson on "Aggregation Theory". (more)

Jon Udell looks at the BlogWeb and Open Source software as Educational Technology, providing opportunity for people with the Motivation (Passion?) and Context. (more)

Mark Cuban Talks About Funding Packback And The Future Of EdTech (more)

Venkatesh Rao: The World is Not Enough People. I was recently rereading Kurt Vonnegut’s hilarious riff, You Are Not Enough People, where he argues that most marital arguments are really about the fact that your spouse is “not enough people.” Human social needs are too diverse and conflicting to be met by one person. (Nuclear Family) (more)

Michael Strong: Radical Social Entrepreneurs: An Introduction to Strong’s Law: Entrepreneurs take initiative to create new enterprises. Social entrepreneurs do so with the well-being of humanity in mind. Radicals go to the root causes of problems. (more)

Joi Ito on Resisting Reduction: Nature’s ecosystem provides us with an elegant example of a complex adaptive system where myriad “currencies” interact and respond to feedback systems that enable both flourishing and regulation. This collaborative model–rather than a model of financial exponential growth or the Singularity, which promises the transcendence of our current human condition through advances in technology—should provide the paradigm for our approach to artificial intelligence. (more)

Gotz Bachmann on Utopian Hacks: The group, clustered around an engineer named Bret Victor, is part of YC Research’s Human Advancement Research Community (HARC)... (more)

Vitorio Miliano: Dynamicland and Design Studio: In 2013, Bret Victor shared A few words on Douglas Engelbart, criticizing retrospectives of the Mother of All Demos which didn't consider Engelbart's intent. 2013-07-03-VictorAFewWordsOnDougEngelbart (more)

Bret Victor: A few words on Douglas Engelbart: His work has always been very difficult for writers to interpret and explain. Technology writers, in particular, tend to miss the point miserably, because they see everything as a technology problem. Engelbart devoted his life to a human problem, with technology falling out as part of a solution. (more)

ThinkCERCA lands $10M Series B, plans to expand sales team and roll out 7,000 new lessons (more)

Right now (2002!) I write a WebLog, read lots of weblogs, send emails (like blogging, but targeted to small key group of people, or maybe something that's still wide-broadcast but of higher importance to me). (more)

aka Driverless Car

lynda.com is an American online education (EduTech) company offering thousands of video courses in software, creative, and business skills. Founded in 1995,[2] the company produces video tutorials taught by industry experts. Members have unlimited access to watch the videos, which are primarily educational. On April 9, 2015, LinkedIn announced its purchase of lynda.com for $1.5 billion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynda.com

Credential, esp associated with "gamification" (Real World Game) (more)

see Complex Adaptive Systems

Frank Patrick and Dale Emery on defining Project success. Another way of looking at the various players involved in projects is through the lens of what the Theory Of Constraints body of knowledge refers to as necessary conditions... Note the common "now and in the future" thread. As necessary conditions of sustainability or growth, these insist that the system cannot be allowed to pay for current success by squandering the future, and vice versa.

I had a couple excellent working meetings recently (just 2 of us in each case), and realized that my current strategy-focused role had been leaving me feeling a little isolated, and that it had been true when I was more hands-on as well. I mentioned that to another Product Manager here and they agreed. Then mentioned it to a friend at a totally different place, and she also agreed. (more)

process of using Collaboration?

The American Information Exchange operated back in the 80s and early 90s as a marketplace for information and contractual relationships. (more)