16 Dec, 2009
Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas
It’s snowing around Europe at the moment and Twitter is trending with term #uksnow. Nothing special about it, besides the fact that’s is a beautiful orchestra of crowdsourced tweets that get aggregated to the #uksnow Map 2.0
Why is this important?
While this is a single focus application, that will probably stop getting attention in a few [...]
12 Dec, 2009
Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas
For the last few weeks, I’ve tried to figure out how to tell a story of different communities around me. They’re all doing great things, but the general perception, within them, is that the public is not recognizing their efforts and that getting more recognition will help with other aspects of their work (getting funding, [...]
27 Oct, 2009
Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas
Seth talked yesterday about Dunbar’s number, that Wikipedia defines as:
Dunbar’s number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person.[1] Proponents assert that numbers larger [...]
There are two ways to read your RSS feeds. You can skim through the text and the titles, getting general idea on the topic, or you can sit down, take a sip of the coffee and contemplate what you are reading. The problem with the second approach is that it takes real-time and dedication as [...]
11 Sep, 2009
Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas
Communities lives and die by its core members that define the rules and norms for it at any given time. They’re often very fluid and can change rules almost on a weekly basis, it’s more often a much slower process.
During the summer I joined (offline) community that is different from my usual one – the [...]