In an age of highly-complex and often highly-expensive social network mapping and analysis tools, it’s good to know that some people still appreciate the value of getting back to basics. Net-Map, a simple network analysis tool, was developed by Eva Schiffer while at the International Food Policy Research Institute to help farmers in rural [...]

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Here’s a breath of fresh air: The Globe and Mail and the Dominion Institute have taken a page out of our Wikinomics playbook by opening up a Policy Wiki where Canadians are invited to contribute their ideas as to what Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty (pictured below) should include in his forthcoming budget. Given that [...]

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No longer to content to lay claim to being the world’s largest scientific collaboration, it seems CERN, which operates the Large Hadron Collider, is now flexing its viral marketing muscles. I had a good laugh at this and can barely wait to share it with my son in the morning.  

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Edge.org recently posted a collection of 151 thoughts from leading thinkers on the “game-changing scientific ideas or developments” they think will “change everything” within their lifetimes. Having co-authored a book about how mass collaboration will change everything I was particularly intrigued by their answers.
There are many good entries, but artist, composer and producer Brian Eno’s [...]

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