Alas, all those pesky stockholders demanding accountability make it
harder to work bottom-up. No swarm is an island.
Does swarmth flow toward coolth? If so, just stay cool and it will
get here sooner or later.
carl
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Here's a column
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/070103/swarm.htmlabout collaborative technologies, largely featuring CompanyWay, which
was acquired by AskMe while the column was in press.
There is also a blog
http://timing.blogspot.com/with digressions on other interesting companies trying to play in this
space.
Swarmth is the author's name for the "pheromone" of authority which
adheres to the ideas of the best minds in the swarmocracy.
This stuff always sounds like it should work great, in principle. Then
I realize that slashdot is the only functioning example of a hive mind
that I can remember from the column. Can that be right?
Anyway, there's a great quote from Bonabeau in the middle of the column
about managers who prefer unsolved problems to solutions they don't
completely control or understand.
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