The REALLY Long Tail! -

From the 1960's to the present - The Long Tail of Doug Engelbart or is it the Long Tale of his envisioning everything PC, Mac, Xerox PARC and above all the Mouse

The Wisdom of Crowds The Random House Version

offers audio clips from the author and from an audio book reading should be compared with the ITC versionThe Wisdom of Crowds

prediction markets - Google Search

Here is the first page of the google search on the term. prediction markets - Google Search

Independent Individuals and Wise Crowds

James Surowieki
Here is a 24 minutes conversation with James Surowieki the author of The Wisdom of Crowds IT Conversations: James Surowieki - Independent Individuals and Wise Crowds

I have neither listened to the podcast nor have I read the book, but I have recently been exposed to a lot of variances on the theme - particularly prediction markets & knowledge sharing markets by my friend John Maloney - who is currently running a series of seminars on the subject.

One view of Doug Engelbart's vision

Probably the most influential future creator that I know - hoping to collaborate with both John Maloney and Eileen Clegg on the book The Engelbart Hypothesis

BW Online | March 21, 2003 | Andrew Isaacs's Book Recommendations

See the mural above on Doug Engelbart's vision ( Isaac was "credited" at the top of the mural - which was created at a symposium at Cal curated by Issacs. ( I think) From the objects and design the mural appears to be one of Eileen Clegg's

BW Online | March 21, 2003 | Andrew Isaacs's Book Recommendations

The Long Tail from Chris Anderson -Blogging your next book

A look at the stats of Chris Anderson'sblog - provides "book development" bloggers (authors) with some reasonable understanding of the reach of a blog by a well known public intellectual - in the audience range of 5000 a day or so.

Chris subtitles his blog A public diary on the way to a book and joins my friend Tom Barnett who describes using his blog to accelerate the writing and publishing of his second book Blue Print for Action which Tom says was way easier that writing the first book because of the feedback he gained from his blog audience during the writing period.

Here's what he says in his The Gift of Blogging

The best compliments I get on PNM are of the "you're just talking about the same ideas
I've been talking about for years!" sort. Sometimes, the excitement of these missives
rises to the level of almost accusing me of vision plagiarism ("We think alike!"), but mostly they just constitute a celebration of connectivity ("We think alike!"). Either way,these are the best sort of compliments because they signal the portability of the ideascontained within the book, and that sort of "aha!" feeling is crucial to the reproducibility of the strategic concept. In short, your great idea is yours alone, but your great vision is everybody's together--otherwise it's just your great opinion.

If PNM generated those sorts of compliments in spades, then BFA should generate them
all the more (hopefully, along with fewer "young man, narrowly read" carps because
BFA's meta-analysis focuses on the works of others more than on my past thinking), and the blog will be the reason.

The blog, therefore, becomes the giant feedback loop that raises the reproducibility factorof BFA by an order of magnitude. It makes PNM "the series" the vision that just keepson visioning.


I copied Tom's quote from a pdf download from his blog.Here is a list of the pdfs which contains The Gift of Blogging

Archives for The Newsletter from Thomas P.M. Barnett

I have also corrected the original post based on useful feedback from Chris Anderson

Alphachimp Tour: Graphic Facilitation

Peter's postproduction of the POP TEch 2004 featuring 'Tom BarnettAlphachimp Tour: Graphic Facilitation

- Quick Tour Alexa search engine

- Quick Tour

BlogicBlog: View from the trenches: Business model for ITConversations

A listener to Doug's IT conversations suggests a way to make money from the network. I will follow up with this person.BlogicBlog: View from the trenches: Business model for ITConversations

The Joint -- Visual Effects, Virtual Cinematography, Stargate, Blogs, Books, and whatever else you might need

a listener of IT conversations who is a virtual realty director(?) The Joint -- Visual Effects, Virtual Cinematography, Stargate, Blogs, Books, and whatever else you might need

IT Conversations: Janine Benyus - Biomimicry

Click on the download at IT Conversations to hear Janine's talk at Pop!Tech 2004 The MemeMural is by Peter Durand. You can also click on the MemeMural to get a larger view.
IT Conversations: Janine Benyus - Biomimicry

adobe and Macromedia merged now

This combo with its potential to better serve the multimedia/creative design folks could be a good technical/investment fit with the MemeMural/Vipodcasting concept.

Podscope IT Conversation - on Doug Engelbart

this audio link illustrataes the ability to provide a direct link from the url underliined in purple below the heading to a podcast produced by IT conversations While I have just hacked it together you can get to understand the power of voice over intors and links to speeches that are prewerved for Long Tail listening.

I am working with the archives of the FiRe conference to accomplish several demonstration pilots - I would like to use yours with Amory Lovins and mine with Tom Barnett -- I have a good number of what I call Meme Murals from Tom's various public speeches that were artistically graphed by my friend Peter Durnad - I expect to use live motion Meme Murals to: (1) serve as a quick pictorial "headline" to the speech and (2) to be played in full motion along with the speech, which is the way the artist produces th visual in the first place. procues

See Podscope

Unbound Spiral: The Push n Pull of ITConversations

Unbound Spiral: The Push n Pull of ITConversations

A brief audio note for Cynthia

Cynthia this is a test of simple audio recording extra for blogposters. It could be a brief audio intro to the post. Let me know what you think

Dave

Cynthia Figge and Amory Lovins FiRe -The Oil End Game

Cynthia imagine the converation with Amory recorded here for playback along with mural images describing the essence of your intreview with him in the same manner that IT Conversations has provided an archive of recorded speeches.

I think certain portions of the FiRe conference would benefit from this archiving which would augment the paper transcript now being provided.

All the voice tracks are kept on the FiRe video archhive I am sure.

IT Conversations: Thomas Barnett - FiRE conference - with Dave Davison

IT Conversations: Thomas Barnett - Technometria with Phil Windley

I have pasted a picture of my interview with Tom at FiRe conference where the audio and video and transcripts are available to be repurposed.

The mural image is from Tom's presentation on the Pentagon's New Map at Pop!Tech 2004 and I have a large archive of murals depicting Tom's New Map Game held in June 2005 in which 50 people created future scenarios based on Tom's thinking.

The link is to Tom's interview with Phil Windley at ITconversations.