Friday, September 7, 2007

Ok I was late to the first class meeting. Nothing was posted about class meeting room and no one told me anything until the morning of. Thanks Carol. She actually didn't know either but the Office Manager in Communications told her.

For some reason, my notes are dated 8/29 Notes on reading "A complexity Science Primer" ... i could have been confused. :) - amelia.

Yes You are right, I've got 9/7/07 on the top of my notes, no idea where this other date came from... so maybe we should combine these pages? - eric

Notes from the meeting
check on EO Wilson Socio Biology

Use all the technologies we can find:

http://del.icio.us/
del.icio.us
social bookmarking
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» all your bookmarks in one place
» bookmark things for yourself and friends
» check out what other people are bookmarking

http://www.wetpaint.com/
Wetpaint
please touch
free wiki websites where everyone gets a brush
start a wiki
Make your own wiki for your class, circle of friends, or favorite things.
Get busy makin' wiki!

Blogs
Groups

PACT People Advocating Change Together

What community can do for complexity and What Complexity can do for Community
Links???

How do we self-organize? Is "doing" before knowing what we do common?
Decentralize power
Network talent model - seperated process from potential
scale free dynamics
bricolage - make do with what you've got
true phase transition - re-organize

Each one of us can discover what are the one or several websites that seem interesting to us.

Assignment for next week:
Write something about complexity (1-2 pages on how complexity informs our life.)- what is the community showing me about complexity??? Bring a couple questions for discussion.