http://sohodojo.com/onetblog A Small Is Good World Voice among Better World Changemakers Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:49:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dahna Goldstein said: [snip] Rousseau's Social Contract springs to mind... Historically, it has been the role of government to reflect the general will, and government, in this framework, has a responsibility to provide things like social services. The Social Contract has clearly played out in different ways in different societies... One ... http://sohodojo.com/onetblog/2006/02/15/self-empowerment-and-friedmans-reform-retail/ As a service to our members, and to promote the development of a "cloud of interconnection" among ONet member blogs and the ONet site, we are providing two downloadable files to make it easy to add ONetizens to your blogroll or links list.These two files are in OPML (Outline Processor ... http://sohodojo.com/onetblog/2006/02/08/onet-bloggers-directory-available-in-blogroll-opml-format/ Thomas George said: In response to Lars's, Jim's and Timlynn's insightful comments, I would like your reaction to the last part in my original comment "given the unpredictable nature of human interactions". Using Jim's and Timlynn's example of eBay, what will be the nature of such a network if transparency of ... http://sohodojo.com/onetblog/2006/02/08/human-nature-and-entrepreneurial-community-ecosystems/ Thomas George said (our emphasis added): here is one way to look at the possible vision of a self empowered world of Anthea and Mfume - what is the "enabling environment" in which the self empowered individual can unleash his/her potential given the unpredictable nature of human interactions? Evolution of a Scale-free ... http://sohodojo.com/onetblog/2006/02/06/not-dense-but-scale-free-networks-at-work-in-2050/ We'd like to tie together a couple of disparate conversations that are going on at the moment on ONet. In response to this thread we posted a non-news "news" article in our personal news space. In Divide and Conquer... the Flat World, we wrote about how collaborative teams need to ... http://sohodojo.com/onetblog/2006/02/05/who-will-be-life-in-africas-executive-producer/ Lars Hasselblad Torres said: although the vision doesn't resonate with me (ie a world in which to live healthy, happy lives one must be "wired"), i really appreciate the place from which the vision springs. The Small World in Action For more on Monica's laptop, see part 1 and part 2 of this ... http://sohodojo.com/onetblog/2006/02/04/six-degrees-in-the-self-empowered-world-of-2050/ In LiA Website change and development converation, Christina Kirabo Jordan said [our emphasis added]: The self-creation of this kind of content [SJT: a-z profile info] is an empowering thing that won't be lost this time around. Because not all of the a-z has to be filled out, individual differentiation comes into ... http://sohodojo.com/onetblog/2006/01/31/divide-and-conquer-the-flat-world/ Hello Lawrence, Christina, Lars, and the members and supporters of the LiA/WE/I4C communities,We are so sorry to hear of the drought and its impact on your ability to work and have Internet access. We hope you will soon have a generator that will help to alleviate the darkness.When you do ... http://sohodojo.com/onetblog/2006/01/31/web-design-power-business-vision-not-technology/ Paul,Your evocative story will hopefully play out entirely as described well before 2050. It is also reasonable to think that the spark to fund this vision will come from the Omidyar Network. And, it is also likely that this vision will "trickle over" from ONet to become the strategic basis ... http://sohodojo.com/onetblog/2006/01/31/envisioning-a-self-empowered-world-in-2050/ Christina Kirabo Jordan said (excerpts below): The drupal module list is very interesting. I started a simple wishlist and it's turned into a monster over http://sohodojo.com/onetblog/2006/01/29/kid-in-a-candy-store-syndrome-and-web-site-design/