Comments on: A Spider Having a Web and no Thoughts http://100trillion.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/a-spider-having-a-web-and-no-thoughts/ The intelligence is in the connections. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:02:11 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: duncanwork http://100trillion.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/a-spider-having-a-web-and-no-thoughts/#comment-60 duncanwork Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:40:17 +0000 http://100trillion.wordpress.com/?p=25#comment-60 Great comment. I wasn't thinking about social capital networks when I wrote this, but of course! A 'smart network' has connections that are especially relevant, then when a connection is "twanged" it's actually useful for all the parties in the path to pay attention to. (Did you see the 7 sec. movie of the spider twirling his web? I tricked her into that by poking her web. She hoped it was a fly, and so she wasted her energy. But she at least provided great potential value for YouTube watchers everywhere.) Great comment. I wasn’t thinking about social capital networks when I wrote this, but of course! A ’smart network’ has connections that are especially relevant, then when a connection is “twanged” it’s actually useful for all the parties in the path to pay attention to.

(Did you see the 7 sec. movie of the spider twirling his web? I tricked her into that by poking her web. She hoped it was a fly, and so she wasted her energy. But she at least provided great potential value for YouTube watchers everywhere.)

]]> By: Michael A. B. Lewkowitz http://100trillion.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/a-spider-having-a-web-and-no-thoughts/#comment-55 Michael A. B. Lewkowitz Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:05:01 +0000 http://100trillion.wordpress.com/?p=25#comment-55 Very intersting... seems to me like the work in social capital is to tune our tools to understand our needs and respond to moments when an event in our network overlaps AND more simply, to tune our ability to 'listen to and probe' our network and pickup the relevant events and context for our current situations. Stillness and context in the moment... or something like that... Very intersting… seems to me like the work in social capital is to tune our tools to understand our needs and respond to moments when an event in our network overlaps AND more simply, to tune our ability to ‘listen to and probe’ our network and pickup the relevant events and context for our current situations.

Stillness and context in the moment… or something like that…

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