James is now following Rebecca’s fantastic speech, this morning he stated his concern over following her :-), he did a very good job.
James had some slides and was subtlety advertising his new company ;-).
“Organic cities are very different to artificial cities” Artificial cities are more like trees where as organic cities are more networked in shape.
Designing for incorporated subversion, to allow people to subvert.
Standard collaboration tools do not allow this subversion, discussion forums, shared erooms, tracking changes in MS Word etc. The collaboration is centre on the tool not the person. However blogs, RSS feeds etc are centred around the person, therefore they control what they get involved in.
James is talking about multi-layered aggregation approach within organisations. A great idea, and when overlayed with tags and a Pubsub/Technorati watchlist anyone in the organisation can find out when specific topics are discussed. However we need the aggregation to also extend to all collaborative tools.
He ended with a wonderful statement designed to generate contention, “If you are trying to facilitate effective online communication in you organisation or institution and you are not using weblogs and RSS… you’ve got a Canberra of an intranet.” A great statement! If you are not from Australia Canberra is a planned city.
Michael Specht 