Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom....
the case for Conversation.

Steve Song

Telecommunications Fellow

Shuttleworth Foundation

The Organisation

A finely calibrated machine

The Organisation

The Organisation

A complex adaptive system

The Organisation

Carl Rogers

The only man who is educated is the man who has learned how to learn ...

how to adapt and change ...

who has learned that no knowledge is secure,

that only the process of seeking knowledge gives a basis for security

Science

Communion with truth

Science

Science

A Social Enterprise

Science

Connectedness

Quantity
changes
everything
qualitatively

...more is different

For networks, more isn't just more...

The Birthday Paradox

The Birthday Paradox

5 nodes10 connections

The Birthday Paradox

5 nodes10 connections

10 nodes45 connections

Small Worlds

Small Worlds

Small Worlds

Bonding Capital

Bridging Capital

~ 180 million blogs started world wide1

~ 3 million posts per day2

1 http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/

2 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/29/end-of-speculation-the-real-twitter-usage-numbers/

3 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/03/three-billion-photos-at-flickr/

~ 3 billion photos3

4 http://www.youtube.com/t/fact_sheet

~ 10 hours of video uploaded every minute4

Power Law Distributions

The average user is not your average user

John Seely-Brownmy own thinking for now 30 years is kind of the shift from a Cartesian point of view of I think, therefore I am where knowledge is a kind of substance that gets kind of poured into your head to build up stocks of knowledge in your head..supposedly, versus we participate, therefore we are in that in participation with others that we come into being

Euan Sempleformer head of KM at the BBC described his job asIncreasing the frequency and quality of the conversations that get your job done

Cory DoctorowConversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Leaving traces

Leaving traces

In order to transcend space AND time, you need to leave traces of yourself, your thoughts, your conversations, your insights.

Seth GodinThe word blog is irrelevant, what's important is that it is now common, and will soon be expected, that every intelligent person (and quite a few unintelligent ones) will have a media platform where they share what they care about with the world.

Seems CrazyBut we'll adapt to a world of Web 2.0 like we adapt to other complex environments

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecstaticist/2969032490/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zakq100/1576540418/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7603557@N08/517302330/

By Ecstaticist

By akQ100

By Lars Hammar

http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/1824234195/

By Luc Legay

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2196901054/

By Joi Ito

http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/391794674/

By Doc Searls

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/982841401/

By Joi Ito

http://www.flickr.com/photos/njlibraryevents/2982893992/

By New Jersey State Library

http://www.flickr.com/photos/photonquantique/1411702665/

By PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE

Creative Commons

Creative Commons

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spursfan_ace/2328879637/

By David Reece

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sookie/31219031/

By Sookie

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecstaticist/2969032490/

By PJFB Photography

http://www.planetary.org/image/as8-14-2383HR.jpg

By NASA

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tym/268420844/

By Proggie

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maisonbisson/109211670/

By misterbisson

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gyuvallos/71410563/

By Gerald Yuvallos

Thanks to Clay Shirky and Here Comes Everybody for many of the ideas that inspired this presentation.

Also thanks to Quino for being such a magnificent cartoonist.

Thanks

Steve Song

email:steve.song@shuttleworthfoundation.org

skype:steve_l_song

blog:http://manypossibilities.net

twitter:stevesong

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