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Digital Social Grooming (Ed Batista) And while I agree with Boyd’s basic premise–i.e. social grooming is an innate behavior so of course it’s going to find expression within social networks–I also agree with Haque’s critique that those networks are devalued when too much content takes the form of ritual displays of grooming behavior.  Some amount of digital social grooming is ...

Heal thyself: Trust people – health – 30 August 2011 – New Scientist “It’s probably the single most powerful behavioural finding in the world,” agrees Charles Raison of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, who studies mind-body interactions. “People who have rich social lives and warm, open relationships don’t get sick and they live longer.” tags: TED AOC health relationships community ...

Stowe Boyd · The Architecture Of Cooperation The new architecture of work is now emerging, after decades of transition. White collar work became knowledge work which has now become creative work. The transition from process to networks is not just a recasting, not just a different style of communication. The work is styled as information sharing through social relationships, and ...

Strategy Leadership & the Soul – YouTube Inspiring video to help us rethink what is possible with our organizations. tags: strategy leadership soul Tips, tricks and resources to make your own gorgeous infographics Infographics (or Information Graphics) are graphic visual representations of data or information, presented in a way to make it easier to consume information. Infographics gained popularity in ...

I need some help deciding what term to use when I write about organizations. Companies? Corporations? Organizations? Firms? Enterprises? Please. Let me know what you think.

We are sitting at the edge of the age of robots. Over the last year, a couple of interesting things happened that will greatly speed up the evolution of robots. Last year, hackers rather quickly figured out that they could reuse a Microsoft Xbox Kinect 3D sensor as a low-cost form of machine vision – that’s right, technology to help ...

Benoit Mandelbrot is no longer with us. This man, who introduced the world to fractals, has had a huge impact on the way I see the world. We owe a huge debt to him. The world will be digesting his insights for many years to come. Thank you, Dr. Mandelbrot. You will be missed.

Readers who worry too much about The Matrix or Terminator may want to skip this post. Scientists are now envisioning a new approach to managing traffic flow by turning traffic lights into self-organizing nodes in a network. Move over SkyNet; say hello to RoadNet. The plan is to build sensors into each traffic light so that it can automatically adjust ...