Imported from an old blog.

When I was younger, my friends, lovers and associates would pride themselves with statements similar to "I have no regrets" or "If I had to do it all over again I wouldn't change anything". I was suspicious of that feeling then and know it to …

Here's some more of a continuing exploration of the politics of collaboration.

I find it helpful to distinguish between two dimensions of collaboration: Emergent versus Imposed and Loose versus Tight. There are presumably many more.

Emergent collaboration comes about in response to a discovered need that is shared amongst a …

Imported from an old blog.

If I recall correctly, Lacanian psychoanalysis posits a moment in youth when the child looks out to the world and seeks an individual or entity that provides the gateway to interaction with the external world. This individual or entity plants the seeds of language that …

This is an edit of an email posted to the Bootstrap Association Unfinished Revolution mailing list. That list was for discussing how the ideas originally produced by Doug Engelbart and his team fit in with modern concepts of information processing and collaboration. This was written in 2002. There is an …