Jay Cross

JANUARY 16, 2011

Kevin Kelly is a force of nature. He spoke at the West Coast Wiki Conference yesterday. From my Seminal Documents page : Out of Control , The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World. Kevin Kelly. “The world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it.&# "The central act of the coming era is to connect everything to everything.&# "Complexity must be grown from simple systems that already work.&

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 16, 2011

West Coast Wikiconference 2011. WikiPedia turned 10 years old today. I attended a delightful unconference with a hundred Wikipedians at the Hub in San Francisco. How’s this for a deal? $25 paid for breakfast, lunch, a full day’s events, presentations by Ward Cunningham and Kevin Kelly, and even a celebratory t-shirt. Hundred of events like this are taking place around the world.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 21, 2011

Next week, Harold Jarche and I are headed to a series of meetings with a client whose organization has severe hang-ups about web security. Access to many important sites on the net is verboten. Geez. How to work around something like this? Our usual response that “smart phones route around IT&# doesn’t cut it when you want to work web 2.0 tools into the organizational fabric.

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Jay Cross

JANUARY 16, 2011

Eugene Kim announced that Ward Cunningham was our opening keynote speaker for the West Coast WIki Conference. Only after the talk did he mention that Ward invented the wiki (1995) and is a prime mover in both the Agile Software Movement and Software Patterns. The wiki was born in an age when the people who were writing software knew a whole lot more about writing software than the academics.

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