My friend Peter Gloor of IQuest has started a new blog, Swarm Creativity Blog, that builds on the ideas in his book by the same name, Swarm Creativity. There is a recent series of posts about his experiences in Ghana that include examples of swarm creativity such as Repairing a car in Ghana - an exercise in Swarm Creativity.
There is also a nice piece, Facebook feeds - How Swarms turn the Power of Swarms on to themselves, on how Facebook users used the new very open RSS feed like feature to mount a protest against this feature. As he said, “it was fully transparent to everybody who joined the campaign against the new feature, this was an avalanche of protest breaking loose in full public view.” The operators of Facebook relented and gave control back to the user. This was transparency used to contact too much transparency. As Peter concluded, it is “another example that swarms are great in self-policing and self-enforcement of their community's standard, even while the standards are evolving.”
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