Eric, Thank you for your examples of reputation systems, I'll pursue
that and I appreciate help. I still have to figure out the details of
XpertWeb, and will share that here, too. (01)
Tom, I love your windmill! This is quite an intellectual powerhouse
here, and you're also welcome to pursue that through our lab. We award
free membership for 12 months for any of the following (if anybody is
interested): (02)
- Your thoughtful answers in the public domain to any of our
questionnaires, such as
"Do you think out loud?"
http://www.ms.lt/openwork/doyouthinkoutloud.html
"What do I really care about?"
http://www.ms.lt/ms/projects/tooluses/010121care.html
"Do you organize your thoughts?"
http://www.ms.lt/ms/projects/tooluses/990608surveyen.html
Answers should be openly personal, sharing of yourself, but don't have
to be complete or definitive.
- Placing your blog or wiki or discussion group (in some way fostering
"caring about thinking") in the Primarily Public Domain,
http://www.primarilypublicdomain.org
- Creating or sponsoring relevant open source software.
- Leading a relevant open source initiative.
- Sponsoring open work at our laboratory, starting at $480, see
http://www.ms.lt/serving.html or http://www.ms.lt/team/ (03)
For example, Tom, your letter practically answers our questions "What do
I really care about?" if I reorganize it as below. If you like, please
complete to your satisfaction, and then send to me at ms@ms.lt You'll
find our laboratory's application form at
http://www.ms.lt/en/joining/applying.html which includes our "Statement
of Intent". Your membership would be free. Please let me know of any
questions or obstacles. As a member you get to participate in our
working groups such as http://www.ms.lt/openwork/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thinkingrelevantly/ for fostering
"thinking out loud", business ecosystems, working openly, enterprise
blogging, etc. and will be working openly, for all to view, on XpertWeb. (04)
Tom, I especially appreciate your help in thinking the morality of any
economic protocol, and finding great application spaces, like helping
orphans. I very much look forward to finding ways to slosh activity
across our social spaces. Peace, Andrius, ms@ms.lt (05)
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What do I really care about?
A questionnaire by Natalie d'Arbeloff.
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1) What do I really want to do and to be in the short term and the long
term? (07)
2) What do I really care about? (08)
My focus is on the question, "What is the simplest thing that
I can do which will have the maximum uplift for humanity?" This is a
very interesting question, of which the word "simplest" is the most
challenging... In this context, I prefer to use the word
"transformation" rather than "transaction" as the basic building block
for understanding the "Internet as a conversation." (In TomSpeak, I
would lapse into the notion of the Internet as a speech community, and
our design goal is to create the linguistic shell within which this
community's speech becomes richer and more meaningful.) (09)
3) What choices will I make? What things will I let go, and what things
will I take up? (010)
There are many, many layers to all this, and a great deal of opportunity
(and need) for disruptive innovation. In order to focus these layers on
a specific issue which is understandable, I am thinking about focusing
on a specific problem - HIV/AIDS Orphans in Africa - and how we can use
the Internet connectivity to address this very real issue. The enormous
depth of this problem creates an equally enormous potential for uplift.
Can we could figure out a way to allow "helpers" to turn off the
depressing news on TV and actually help an orphan in need? (011)
4) What are the practical steps I must take to start moving in my chosen
direction? What's involved in terms of earning money, and in terms of
time, place, and people? (012)
I just got funding from Omidyar foundation for the second phase of the
GivingSpace Uplift academy, and want to focus a very general toolset to
this specific problem over the next few months... see Pierre Omidyar's
vision at www.givingspace.org/omidyar.htm I would like to solicit the
intellectual horsepower we have here [Blue Oxen] and elsewhere on the
net to address this issue: "What can we do to trigger the greatest
uplifting effect for HIV/AIDS Orphans in Africa?" To use Christopher
Alexander's metaphor, our design should seek to be a "Chartres
Cathedral" class design...of a scale and social significance never
before seen on the Internet. Let's just fantasize that we had
arbitrary financial and computing resources for this design... What
kinds of autocatalytic effects for a "cascade of uplift" could we trigger? (013)
5) What is one aspect of what I really want to do that I can focus my
thinking on and put it into some kind of form? (014)
One approach I am exploring is the notion of creating an uplift pattern
language to generalize and describe uplifting activities and their
contexts. These patterns would be subject to reputation and validation
mechanisms, and therefore be self-improving. In the same way that the
periodic chart of the elements created a pattern for describing both
what we knew and what we did not know about the elements, we could weave
these patterns into an Uplift Tapestry. This would be a mapping of what
we know is works, combined with a visualization of where these patterns
would be most applicable. (015)
6) What can I do so that all along the way I respond to whatever life
presents me with, in the best way I can? (016)
Can we get people to realize how for just a tiny contribution of time,
money, or thought could contribute to saving or changing a life? Can we
connect people more directly, so that they can feel uplifted themselves
in uplifting others? Can we make this self-organizing and self-propagating? (017)
7) Do I agree to place my answers in the public domain, so that all may
copy and share them without asking for my permission? (If you do, we'll
share them.) (018)
8) Would I like to give my name? And a way to contact me, such as an
email address? (If you do, we'll credit you as the author.) (019)
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