Curiouser and Curiouser! on joi-ito http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic joi-ito Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Changing the rules Sat, 19 Jul 2003 10:03:20 +0100 <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P><A href="http://joi.ito.com/archives/2003/07/19/strategic_heckle_command.html">Strategic Heckle Command</A>. </P> <P>I've set up <A href="http://joi.ito.com/joiwiki/StrategicHeckleCommand">a wiki page</A> to try to heckle conferences more strategically. We should post information about conferences we are going to remote-heckle, list of speakers, past presentations from the speakers, what they are likely to speak about, hard questions we should ask, etc.</P> <P>By Joichi Ito jito@neoteny.com. [<A href="http://joi.ito.com/">Joi Ito's Web</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>I hope speakers are going to get some advance notice that the rules have changed.</P> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001525.html Fitness Amplifiier Sun, 18 Jan 2004 07:42:04 +0000 <blockquote><p>...</p><p>If you think about the power law as themes or ideas instead of people and you think about fitness as the level in which an idea resonates with people, the power law could be viewed as an amplifier for ideas and memes that are sufficiently interesting. Because fitness so influences a nodes ability to climb the power law, I think the notion that I described in the <a href="http://joi.ito.com/joiwiki/EmergentDemocracyPaper">Emergent Democracy paper</a>, where the tail of the curve is where the creativity happens and the power law is how an idea whose time has come goes main stream still makes sense. I think the key to making the system "fair" is to make sure the tail is inclusive as possible and to try to encourage technology and norms to value fitness over simply linking to those who are popular. As <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0114726/2003/02/12.html">Ross shows in his three layers</a> of creative, social and political, I think the power law is the final amplification part. In fact, the tail of the power law, the creative layer and the social layer where the initial deliberation occurs might where we should be focusing our energies.</p>[<a href="http://joi.ito.com/">Joi Ito's Web</a>]</blockquote> <p>Interesting thinking from Joi.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001825.html