Coevolving collaborative tools mailing list.

The Blue Oxen folks and friends are having great forward-thinking, eyes-wide-open conversations on collaboration technologies over on the yak-tools mailing list. Here are a few nuggets that I found quite interesting:

• Social network visualization from mailing list data using Java-based Apache Agora by Stefano Mazzocchi, someone I recently discovered and should be watching closely. “The basic idea is that every time you reply to somebody's message, you are creating a social relationship between you and that person.”
• Collaboratively annotating the planet with Blogosphere Headmap. Among other things, provides another way of visualizing the GeoURL dataset.
• A QuickTime Movie Tour of the BuddySpace system under development at the Open University, which aims to address the challenges of “High-impact, low-effort, large-scale group communications; Community of practice group awareness; understanding 'where people' are mentally (cognitive and affective states) as well as physically (geo-location services) given increasing mobility and multi-tasking; “.
• I think I also saw Danny Ayers chime in there with his RDF-based semantic blogging tool project.

Chris Dent posts weekly summaries of the action on the CollabWiki.

[Seb's Open Research]

Everyday the arena of interaction and education in online environments is populated by more and more interesting and occasionally exciting tools. I wish that i had time to play with them all.

The Social Web and its implications.

I will be speaking at the Constellation W3 event on the future of the Web in Montréal on March 15th. The tentative title of my talk is The Social Web and its implications. All kinds of interesting people that I'd been meaning to meet for a long time should be there. I'm really looking forward to this.

[Seb's Open Research]

This looks like it could be interesting…..

Tools for Electronic Democracy. One of the promising conversational threads at the Emergent Democracy Happening was the discussion of tools. There are various types… [BookBlog]

participation not presence is central to democracy.

Culture Jamming. We saw a lot of interesting talks at the 030303>Collective Play conference yesterday, but I wanted to quickly mention one… [game girl advance]

this looks interesting and fun, i could see people who are frustrated with things on tv create change through this. I'm conceptualizing right now a mutable tv system based on a wide variety of technical systems that could merge together in the next 20 years.

Transdisciplinarity in KM.

Recent comments to ?Emergent KM Research? ? proposal from Quaerere to KAngels continue the discussion about multi-/trans-/inter-disciplinary approaches to KM. At this stage reading the discussion can make you totally confusing, so to pieces:

Definition of transdisciplinarity (cited by Peter Troxler from Transdisciplinarity – New Structures in Science)

a scientific (…) principle that is active wherever a definition of problems and their solutions is not possible within a given field or discipline.

Boris Wyssusek

I also want to reiterate my question: is there anyone seriously interested in methodological issues of KM? Please let me know.

[Mathemagenic]

I generally define a trandiscipline along the lines that Guattari and Vilar define it, as an arena of study that is defined by the globality of its object and humbled by the innumerable methods for coming to know about that object.

Blech. You know, I thought I'd gotten the Naked Juice Protein Zone before, but obviously I hadn't. And I've obviously forgotten… [Inside Gretchen's Head]

I like green machine too. I tried the carrot one the other day, blech, tasted like watered down carrots and nearly gagged me.

Origins of science. Timeline of early science. A good read, albeit it ignores Atlantis, and it's source of unlimited power. [via Robot Wisdom] [MetaFilter]

interesting enough, it has a pretty good general account of early science.

Vout-aroonee with a Floy-Floy. Vout-aroonee with a Floy-Floy. Slim Gaillard was immortalized by Jack Kerouac, wrote great songs, was a jive pioneer and even appeared in Charlie's Angels. [MetaFilter]

time comes and goes along these lines far too frequently….