Danny Crichton: The nation-state of the internet. Clearly, the internet is home to many, diverse communities of similar-minded people, but how do those communities transmute from disparate bands into a nation-state? (more)

cf Three One One

Steven Johnson on NYC's 311 info service. The approach of making use of the frequency of requests reminds me of Public Health databases - see 2003-12-30-Public Health Software.

Coups, lies, dirty tricks: The Police's Stewart Copeland on his CIA agent father. In 1986, a 69-year-old Miles Axe Copeland Jr gave a memorable interview to Rolling Stone magazine. His three sons were all music industry powerhouses – Stewart played drums in the Police, Miles III was their manager and Ian their booking agent – and Miles himself had been a jazz trumpet-player in his youth. But the interview wasn’t about music. The subject was his days as the CIA’s man in the Middle East between 1947 and 1957, during which time he dined with President Nasser of Egypt, partied with the Soviet spy Kim Philby and, as a pioneer of “dirty tricks”, played a part in removing the leaders of Syria and Iran. Inconveniently for his youngest son, he concluded the interview by implying that the Police were a psy-ops outfit who played shows to “70,000 young minds open to whatever the Police decide to put into them”. (more)

How to mobilize group intelligence. Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World Geoff Mulgan (more)

Jeff Jarvis: A Coming Crisis of Cognition. My greatest heresy to date — besides questioning paywalls as panacea — is to doubt the primacy of the story as journalistic form and to warn of the risk of valuing drama, character, and control over chaotic reality. (more)

David Sloan Wilson: Thinking Clearly About Collective Intelligence: A Conversation with Geoff Mulgan about his new book Big Mind. (2018-01-25-HowToMobilizeGroupIntelligence) There is little doubt in my mind that groups can think, and can have true or false beliefs. But the ways groups do these things are not precisely analogous to the ways individuals work. (more)

Today pardons and clemency are granted in many countries when individuals may have been wrongly convicted of a crime or have demonstrated that they have fulfilled their debt to society. http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon (more)

Donald Trump: 'I have the absolute right to pardon myself'. The memo, details of which were published over the weekend by The New York Times, is months old and was sent by the president’s legal team to the office of special counsel Robert Mueller. (more)

Eugene Kim (of the Open Hyperdocument System project) on Interoperability Between Collaborative Knowledge Applications: Towards a Standard Graph-Based Data Model for the Open Hyperdocument System . RDF, IBIS-based systems, Group Discussion, etc. But no mention of Blog Thread, which isn't surprising, since blogs aren't used this way much yet. (more)

aka CollaborationWare, SoftwareForge

http://futureoftext.org symposium run by Liquid Information (more)

Three.js is a cross-browser JavaScript library and application programming interface (API) used to create and display animated 3D computer graphics in a web browser using WebGL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three.js

Peter Sims book: Little Bets ISBN:1439170428 (more)

Group that does awesome jazz-Improv versions of Captain Beefheart tunes. Another Phillip Johnston project (more)

You (and Your Therapist) Can Change Your Personality (cf Personality Test). In an analysis of 207 studies, published this month in the journal Psychological Bulletin, a team of six researchers found that personality can and does change, and by a lot, and fairly quickly. But only with a therapist’s help. (Imagine that.) (more)

metaphor for ecosystem? An octopus' digital garden? (more)

What pages do I think to most myself in-space? cf Fractal Dimension Of A Hypertext Space. (more)

Alex Wright on "The Secret History of HyperText". Historians of technology often cite Vannevar Bush’s essay as the conceptual forerunner of the Web. And hypertext pioneers like Douglas Engelbart, Ted Nelson, and Tim Berners Lee have all acknowledged their debt to Bush’s vision. But for all his lasting influence, Bush was not the first person to imagine something like the Web. (more)

A maxim used to explain such things as (more)