A responsibility assignment matrix[1] (RAM), also known as RACI matrix[2] (/ˈreɪsi/) or linear responsibility chart[3] (LRC), describes the participation by various roles in completing tasks or deliverables for a project or business process. RACI is an acronym derived from the four key responsibilities most typically used: Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed.[4] It is used for clarifying and defining roles and responsibilities in cross-functional or departmental projects and processes.[5] There are a number of alternatives to the RACI model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix (more)

Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi believe that Cognitive Democracy (Democracy) offers superior outcomes for Problem Solving in Complex Systems than Markets and Command And Control systems ("hierarchy"). Specifically, we argue that democracy has unique benefits as a form of collective problem solving in that it potentially allows people with highly diverse perspectives to come together in order collectively to solve problems. Democracy can do this better than either markets and hierarchies, because it brings these diverse perceptions into direct contact with each other, allowing forms of learning that are unlikely either through the price mechanism of markets or the hierarchical arrangements of bureaucracy. Furthermore, democracy can, by experimenting, take advantage of novel forms of collective cognition (collective intelligence) that are facilitated by new media. Disputation Arena?

creator of Eden Alternative (more)

Steve Gurney hosted a webcast with Bill Thomas (creator of Eden Alternative) on "Better Together: The Awesome Power of Growing Stronger Together". (more)

Geeks With Kids-to-be need a few Baby Books. Here's my list. (more)

Totally subjective; see also Teen Movie (more)

The G20 poured more than $1tn on fossil fuel subsidies despite Cop26 pledges. The amount of public money flowing into coal, oil and gas in 20 of the world’s biggest economies reached a record $1.4tn(£1.1tn) in 2022, according to the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) thinktank, even though world leaders agreed to phase out “inefficient” fossil fuel subsidies at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow two years ago. (more)

Aaron Z. Lewis: Being Your Selves: Identity R&D on alt Twitter. I grew up in cyber spaces where legal names were few and far between: RuneScape, AIM, Club Penguin, Neopets, and the like. But when I turned 13, Facebook opened up its floodgates to teenagers across America and washed away our playful screen names. (more)

a short-name for an item/node that isn't universally-unique (cf UUID), but unique within some bounded context - e.g. a particular group (more)

Kei Kreutler: Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online accounts. (more)

Talking to OpenGlobalMind folks has me pondering ways to nudge toward an Optimistic Near Future Vision. (more)

Cloud-based Whiteboard/MindMapping. Used to be RealTimeBoard. https://miro.com/ (more)

killer of cities and forests (more)

It is estimated that of the roughly 150,000 people who die each day across the globe, about two thirds—100,000 per day—die of age-related causes.[6] In industrialized nations the proportion is much higher, reaching 90%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cause_of_death (more)

expected/predicted length-of-life (more)

when various institutions expect a person to stop working at a DayJob (more)

Gitcoin: Announcing Grants Round 12! Over $1.5M in total matching funds committed so far, expected to break all previous records (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Monthly Roundup #5: April 2023. As AI eats the world and my time and news feeds, it is always good to know other things also happen (more)

Mark Gorton (2008) concept for a Real Time AutoMobile/Van/Taxi/Car Pool/Ride Sharing Market/dispatching system. New form of Mass Transit? (more)

I moved FluxGarden to DigitalOcean, but nothing else at LiNode. So webseitz is still running from there... (more)