Earlier in the week I posted Chris Rasmussen’s wonderful depiction of the merits of wiki collaboration. I noted then how a participant at a recent talk I gave at Nokia had pointed out that the happy faces on the left of Chris’s diagram probably ought to be frowning. Chris then alerted me [...]

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Some time ago I was asked by the U.S. General Services Administration to write an article describing how I envision the role of public sector CIOs. The article has now been published (Role of the Public Sector CIO) along side articles by Karen Evans, John Suffolk, Bill Vajda, Teri Takai, P.K. Agarwal, Jerry Mechling, [...]

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words and I think this one sums up the power of wiki collaboration better than any 1,000 word essay ever could (Click here for a better view). The model is courtesy of Chris Rasmussen at Intellipedia. I presented this slide during a talk I gave at Nokia [...]

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I caught the BBC’s article on email overload this morning. The article points out that two million e-mails are sent every minute in the UK. That is almost three billion each day.
But what is the real cost of this information overload, they ask? Apparently one UK-based firm estimated that dealing with pointless e-mails cost [...]

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Wikinomics was published with 11 chapters, but only the first ten chapters had been written. Chapter 11 – the Wikinomics Playbook – was a blank slate with an open invitation for the world to help us write a suiting conclusion on wikinomics.com.
Over the course of 2007 something remarkable happened. A community of readers and experts [...]

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President Bush recently called for the US administration to dramatically curtail earmarks (essentially pet spending projects that members of Congress insert into the federal budget), saying he will veto any appropriations bills that don’t cut the number of earmarks in half when they come to him during the remainder of his days in the White [...]

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The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals recently posted its Practitioners Handbook to the web and opened it up for revision by members of the bar. It’s a “no holds barred” approach to harnessing the collective wisdom of legal practitioners. Attorneys are encouraged to make comments, change information, add topics; in short, post whatever they think [...]

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My Wikinomics co-author Don Tapscott has an interesting post on Wiki cities over on wikinomics.com. He discusses the “Wiki City Rome” initiative, a project led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that uses data from cellphones and other wireless technology to illustrate the city’s pulse in real time. The project features a giant on-screen display [...]

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My colleague Paul Artiuch just alterted me to a new Wiki initiative that aims to expose the secrets of the world’s oppressive regimes. The Wikileaks initiative is,
“developing an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Our primary interests are oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, [...]

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Anamik Saha of Goldsmith’s University in London tipped me off about a new online journal called Re-public. The journal is currently featuring a fascinating series on the future of “the commons” and intellectual property in a connected world. The series includes contributions from Richard Stallman, Dougalss Rushkoff, and Michael Bauwens. I’m looking forward to reading [...]

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