NetDynam 2.0

Interest in collaborative technologies gets a rocket pack?

Join Federal Computer Week and Jeanne Holm, chief knowledge architect at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for an informative eSeminar:

Cross-agency collaboration

Federal Computer Week will present an eSeminar with Jeanne Holm, chief knowledge architect at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in an eSeminar at 11 a.m. Wed., Oct. 28, where she will discuss how technology can be used to increase innovation and collaboration within government agencies.

In the past few months, the government has accelerated its adoption of Web 2.0 tools. Much emphasis has been given to public-facing blogs, but government agencies are equally focused on enhancing their internal communications. While security concerns remain a barrier to adoption, several agencies have embraced collaboration tools, tapping the ideas and insights of their workforce and creating new spaces for dialogue and engagement.

This presentation will address:

– Tools and technologies currently being used;
– The importance of providing access to common platforms across the agency;
– The role of culture and change-management in fostering collaboration;
– How to find ways to engage the public and facilitate an open exchange of ideas;
– Barriers to collaboration – including security concerns – and best-practices for overcoming them; and
– Creative solutions that NASA has employed – such as holding meetings in SecondLife – to explore the future of collaboration.

Following the presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. The entire eSeminar will be made available in an online archive.

As Frank points out elsewhere, this is coming a little late to the party…

Let’s hope that change-management can engage the culture securely. But is holding meetings in SecondLife a “solution” or an experiment? I guess we’ll have to tune in to find out…

This post starts a series aimed to point to a conception of Web 3.0 drawn from the deployment of the so-called semantic web for the purpose of having so-called machines read and interpret the data.

Amongst the inner circle here, it goes without saying that this has already been raised as a concept and direction, and it has been supposed this require text/lexical analytical tools.

For my own part, I assume lots of people and teams are working to build robust analytic tools. Also, it is most interesting to me personally to consider what are the ramifications of Web 3.0 for users who don’t give a whit about what is happening inside these machines; nor care much about the purposes implicit in the human direction prior to (and thus ‘behind,’) machine activities; nor are aware of the long history of efforts to realize effective and efficient data-mining/analysis tools for all sorts of commercial, security, law enforcement, research, purposes.


via Readwriteweb The Web of Data: Creating Machine-Accessible Information

via Twine: The Web of Identities: Making Machine-Accessible People Data

footnote found here: Cybernetick Inkwell

So what, then, are all the technologies like mashups, XML, Java and the rest, if not 2.0? I actually see them as web 3.0 technologies–not for the casual user or faint of heart. 1.0 was the early web, with its need for knowledge of code and servers; 2.0 is easy entry, democratization, and increased participation; 3.0 is about more complex connections being made.

via Social Computing Journal: Web 3.0: The Web Goes Industrial

Web 2.0 is social: many hands make light work. In stark contrast, Web 3.0 is industrial: the automation of tasks displaces human work. But trite definitions won’t prepare us for change. Whatever you call it, our information economy is in the midst of an Industrial Revolution. And if you don’t place the Web within the frame of industrial manufacturing, you won’t see the real disruptive change coming.

This story reads much like the first Industrial Revolution. Artisans and skilled tradesman used to create everything by hand. Then, through the emergence of a handful of technical innovations, came the age of mass production. It was a profound turning point in human history, affecting every aspect of daily life.

Today, most content is still created by hand, the best of it by highly skilled artisans drawing on centuries of scholarship and experience. Recently, we’ve seen significant innovations in social approaches to content creation. But Web 3.0 industrialization takes content manufacturing to an entirely different level. Instead of users manually creating content, machines automate the heavy lifting. Consumers simply push the buttons and get stuff done. Think spinning wheels versus textile mills.

I note in this excerpt the facile leap from content manufacturing to consumers simply push buttons.

The middle man is not expressed. Hmmm. Is Web 3.0 partly about the industrialization of mediation?

Some argue that Web 3.0 will be a leveling force, and proceed to speak of more democratization. Others make wolf-in-sheep-clothing counter arguments. I would tend to wonder how leveling works in the context of the march of capital, and its aims. (But, then, I’ve read too much Ivan Illich.)

thoughts?