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Ivaylo Ganchev – April 23 2008
This message should fit here. There is a ongoing effort to translate the talks on this site in various languages in the form of subtitles with the hope the ideas to be spread more widely. The motivation for this project came from the inability to share the talks with friends and family who do not speak English. The main goal is to make the talks and the ideas they channel available to people who do not speak English.
The project could be found at http://en.tedtranslate.ath.cx. We need help both from English speaking (in order to improve the help pages and provide transcripts) and non-English speaking (translation of the talks and the site) people.
If you like the idea, please be invited to join.
Thanks.
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W. Randy Haynes – April 1 2008
It seems to me that the greatest barrier to collaboration on a human level stems from male identity. As wrong as it is, men still dominate most of the levers of power around the world and that's tied to the concepts of supremacy, oppression, and rational SELF-interest.
Darwin's "survival of the fittest" model of evolution has been overstated, focusing primarily on brute strength and breeding rights. This promotes a concept of maleness that over values aggression/greed, and devalues the importance of cooperation. I believe it to be wrong. This misunderstanding of evolution gives a natural justification to both social Darwinists and capitalists- at-any-cost. I believe that, if evaluated without bias, cooperation has been a greater force in survival than strength and domination.
We need a new model of male identity, the cooperative male, that most men can still identify with. Earlier attempts at this have failed because it was perceived, by both men and women, that the "male movement" was trying to make men more like women, or unmale. Men still have to feel like men, however that's defined. Any new version would require a model that is based upon age-old traditions of male cooperation, and sheds a spotlight on the glaring problems with excessive male competition. It would also have to make a case, reaching to the emotional level, that cooperation is in men's best self-interest.
In that regard, I am starting a new fraternal organization for progressive men, Planet Brotherhood. Potential members, contact me.
I'm also putting together an anthology on what it means to be a modern male, from a progressive, cooperative point of view. I'm looking for contributors. Contact me for submission guidelines, or nominate someone that you think would make a great contributor.
W. Randy Haynes
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José Tavares – March 15 2008
Bruce:
If, eventually, you're not aware of Amdhal's Law, just look it up, on what concerns "We can't perfectly work the whole by only trying to perfect a part."
"... 'one knowledge' before we understand the specific process for how knowledge is created, how it advances, etc. we get entagled in a lot of theory and conjecture."
The process of understanding (rather, the attempt to) requires conjecturing & theorization.
Working towards a 'single knowledge' is idealistic at best, in my opinion (not that the aim in itself is not worth considering).
Realistically (I'm convinced), at the planetary scale, 'convergent knowledge' is even considered an anathema, as knowledge is power...
My two cents, anyway.
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Bruce LaDuke – March 15 2008
Knowledge is one and any collective wisdom is an effort to work one knowledge cooperatively or collaboratively. We can choose to divide knowledge and work portions of it cooperatively or collaboratively, but it is still one knowledge. We can create to social knowledge bases with two different political structures, but it is still one knowledge.
When we try to figure out ways to optimize the processes of cooperation or collaboration around this 'one knowledge' before we understand the specific process for how knowledge is created, how it advances, etc. we get entagled in a lot of theory and conjecture. Cooperation/collaboration are just one facet of the whole process of knowledge working. We can't perfectly work the whole by only trying to perfect a part.
The next leap in collaboration is to fully understand this whole process of knowledge working and to then cooperate and collaborate in this context. In a nutshell, knowledge is created by converting questions to knowledge structure. By this fundamental process all knowledge, and society as a whole, advances. This might seem inconsequential, but understanding the question helps us understand the entire process of knowledge working we are trying to cooperate and collaborate in.
I explain all of this at a high level on this site: http://www.anti-knowledge.com
And have several related posts on HyperAdvance here: http://hyperadvance.com/blog/?cat=4 -
Anders Abrahamsson – June 29 2007
Ah, TED announced on the blog its 10000th member in-becoming (at the moment of writing concluded since it says 10056), but the # does not correspond to your profile ID#, seemingly?
And given the 1% percent rule, there should be around 100 active contributors, 900 who comes here and there, and the rest just having inactive accounts, right?
Critical mass of Collective Wisdom, addressed as a core desired element of this TEDTheme, to appear on the net needs to be in the Numbers Beyond. Sure. But - offline, an Open Space with 50 participants can blow your mind.
(from "Wikia":)
"Equation to work out probable contributors:
We can estimate our potential contributors from the following equation :
No. of Interested x Aware proportion x Confident & Passionate proportion
= Potential Contributors"
Q: How do we tackle an online unconferencing environment that does not make the Law of Two Feet visible?
References:
http://blog.ted.com/2007/06/welcome_tedcoms.php - con-GRATZ!
http://www.openspaceworld.org
http://www.openspaceworld.com/users_guide.htm
http://www.openspaceworld.com/brief_history.htm
(the root of Unconferences and "original" rules formulated from the Harrison Owen discoveries)
http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Will_Wikis_Work%3F#Critical_Number_of_Contributors (from "Will my Wiki Work @ Wikia, the Wikipedia For-Profit Arm from TEDSpeaker Jim Wales ingenuity how to keep Wikipedia running...or?) -
Anders Abrahamsson – June 29 2007
@christopher macrae - Great: And one flaw with this community. Parallel entrepreneurs are not allowed in TED, since only one *current* organization is allowed. Only serial entrepreneurs, then? Strange and narrow-minded, IMHO.
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christopher macrae – June 29 2007
I am interested in open relations with every community interested in meta-collaboration which (dad) London's senior revolutionary economist and colaboration entrepreneur defined 24 years ago as offering ways forward that empower above zero-sum sustainabiity
I am pretty sure that the communal wish is absolutely pivotal to scaling interlocal & cross-cultural support flows for any network's trust and deepest uniquness in raising people's meta-collaboratuion games and flows - I suspect this emergent work needs some iteration in emails in a way that I dont have wordsmithing capability in linera-thread mode - I'ms at chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk or facebook.com/ free the vocational univesrity across africa http://cidaworld.blogspot.com - and our next urgent need to communally practice this is around July 20 in London when 1000 meta-collaborators are due to meet for a day - more on whyy/how/who etc at http://wiki.espians.com/Collaborations or ted.com virtual HUMAN member david pinto -
Anders Abrahamsson – June 29 2007
In the age of Radical Transparency leading to Radical Trust and is a reflection of Radical Authenticity (thanks Michael Pokocky coining this term!), I publish my Open Letter I made in the Contact Form, just sent to the TED Leading Apex/Adm;
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"Hi,
Would you please add me to "maybe invite in the future" list?
I have an Idea Worth Spreading that I intend to transform to a TED Communal Wish..
Communal?
- YES - Every person in the world who wants to empower others can make a TED-type Wish to make their Wish Come True in their specific empowerment project - and it is a main way forward towards my Vision RE:LOVE THE WORLD (see my TED Community Profile). If you get a powerful community where you address your wish, you might get the support you never could imagine before. Why extend it to only three people every year, when there are soon seven billion people all filled with untapped ingenuity and power?
Idea Worth Spreading?
- YES - the Idea about Sustainopreneurship, collecting 1 million Google hits by year-end 2008, Dec 31. And everyone having a practical, hands on sustainopreneurial project in need for support (a "Business with a Cause" to solve a sustainability-related problem), I want to be a part of creating a forum/space to ease up the process to get it operationable and a success.
I would love to come to TED2009 to tell the story how the "one million hits" Google Discover happened :).
Take care, you do a tremendous work where the collective wisdom created by all the TED Wishes interconnected and collected, really is untapped! Everything is linked to everything else, and every TED Wish come true thus are linked as well. The Sum is greater than the Parts, since the Factor of all the Terms makes the World Change to be exponential.
And thus, the World gets Sustainable at an Explosive, Exponential Rate.
In summary: Where is the Long Tail of TED-type of Wishes Empowerment Engine?
Peace,
Anders
• TED Profile: http://www.ted.com/index.php/profiles/view/id/1737
• My TED Contributions: http://www.ted.com/index.php/themes/view/id/19" -
Anders Abrahamsson – June 27 2007
@jeremie laflamme: Bee Hive is not an appropriate metaphor. Bees are low bandwith singularly oriented in few tasks, where the collective result is collective survival. We are extremely high bandwidth multi-tasking, still getting to a collective result, that in fact is the only creature on Earth that can have an outcome of collective Flora and Fauna un-survival - and produce the opposite Excessive Joy of Life. Because we have a choice.
There seems to be a problem with top-down communication in this little Hive called "TED Interactive Community" if this is one of the most vibrant conversations - the key for emerging collective wisdom - among TEDizens, if we don't go beyond this. Go to the first page and click "most discussed". We are on top. And June Cohen - "community moderator/facilitator", or? - is not voicing, either. Respond to Q's, June! You are a Key Facilitator to make this HAPPEN! And hopefully, even Chris Anderson chimes in when time allows. Or?
A waste of Design and Coding, besides Time and Energy overall, otherwise, if this revamp of the TED site don't render more inter-action than this. And elsewhere.
Still promising that the Rise of Collaboration is one of the "most talked about". But, an end note, equally promising: it is not the number of entries that are important, it is the quality of them. Keep 'em comiin' :) !
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.............................................................................................
Peace,
Anders
...a COLIBRI...humming away for the next nectar on the net ;) -
jake levine – June 19 2007
Any update on when the Clay Shirky presentation will be available?
"June Cohen – April 18 2007
Mischa, quite right! We should have Yochai's talk (which preceded his excellent book The Wealth of Networks) posted in the next month, followed soon by those from Clay Shirky and Howard Rheingold. All are essential thinkers in this space. We're editing as fast as we can! :-)"