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InnovationCamp
April 22, 2008
Think BarCamp for innovation. Few rules. No titles. No hierarchy. Just people exchanging ideas, solutions, and possibilities around innovation: business innovation, social/cultural innovation, environmental innovation, whatever…
Welcome to InnovationCamp! We invite all to attend, both those in the cowork/collab community and our good friends who live and work at BigCo. We all [...]
Back to the Parking Lot
April 18, 2008
For some reason the hippie in me pours forth on Fridays. I just checked the calendar and see that it is Friday again, so…
Nomads at Last, Nomads Forever
A couple of really interesting pieces about digital nomads have appeared recently in The Economist. I have been rabbiting on extensively here, here, and here about Nomadism in [...]
Nomads and Power, Part I
April 10, 2008
Nomads and Evolution
Contemporary nomadism, i.e. cyber foraging in new economy 2.0, is not a simple rejection of corporate conformity. Nomadic behaviors, whether in the deserts of SW Africa or in the urban savannah of java programmers and joomla junkies, is as natural as air and water. It is in fact a return to [...]
My Confession
April 8, 2008
I’m writing a business letter today and I get to a point where I’m talking about Community and Collaboration (in caps). My heart is pounding and maybe I sound a little wild. Suddenly, I realize that this is my Religion.
I don’t want to sit in the Big Chair. I don’t want to [...]
Anytime, Anywhere Work
April 5, 2008
In a conversation this week with Neil Goldberg, founder of the Gate 3 Work Club (recently closed), we learned about the Anytime Anywhere Work policy at Sun Microsystems. Known at Sun as iWork@Sun, the policy encourages remote working arrangments for employees, where it minimizes the need to be on campus ulness they need to physically be [...]
The Anthropology of Twitter
March 27, 2008
Any proper treatment of Twitter would take several thousands of words, but I’ll try to do it here as quickly as possible. (I’ll try and keep it under 140 characters)
Periodically here we wax anthropological, because we are anthropological waxers. At times we are light hearted, at other times we are fucking pissed off. [...]
Work, Re-Designed
March 25, 2008
For several months we have been documenting the rapid evolution of distributed work, generally, and the take-off of coworking, specifically. At this year’s SXSW Interactive, the evidence of coworking’s coming of age was clear to see.
We have used various analogies and metaphors to try and make sense of the coworking impulse, but sometimes we [...]
Note to Self… OLPC, My Starbucks Idea, NASA, Edison, Archimedes
March 24, 2008
Yves Béhar of Fuseproject pulls a 2008 Brit Insurance Design Award for his rugged, low-power laptop design for the One Laptop per Child project. I saw the laptop during a session at SXSW (pictures below). It (and the purpose it serves) rocks!
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Starbucks got into crowdsourcing (share/vote/discuss/see) with My [...]