The Crowd - a new roundtable at PBS Digital Nation

I'm moderating a conversation between the smartest people I know thinking about open source, crowd-sourcing, the hive, and digital mob behavior over at http://pbsdigitalnation.org It has already evolved into a mind-expanding, passionate, no-holds-barred conversation.

You are all invited to participate along with:

Danah Boyd - Social Media Researcher, Microsoft Research; Fellow, Berkman Center of Internet and Society, co-author, Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out. http://danah.org

Amy Bruckman - Associate Professor, Electronic Learning Communities, Georgia Institute of Technology http://www.cc.gatech.edu/elc/index.shtml

Nicholas Carr - author, The Big Switch and the forthcoming The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains . http://roughtype.com

Kevin Kelly - Senior Maverick, Wired magzine. Author, Out of Control, and What Technology Wants - coming in October http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/

Mark Pesce - co-inventor of VRML, founder, FutureSt social web consultancy, author, Share This Book (upcoming) http://www.sharethiscourse.org/

Clay Shirky - NYU Interactive Telecommunications Programm, author Here Comes Everybody http://www.shirky.com/

RU Sirius - co-founder, Mondo2000, Editor, H+ magazine http://www.hplusmagazine.com/

Sherry Turkle - Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, author, The Second Self, Simulations and Its Discontents, and Alone Together (forthcoming) http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/techself/

Jimmy Wales - Co-founder, Wikipedia. Trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home

Comments

[Mark Trueblood]

Crowdsourcing is one positive indication of a global hive mind being birthed from the primordial womb of creative consciousness.

[mason]

@Mark Trueblood All those images and flashes of text of which you are capable and you allow yourself to post the above?

Apparently, you jest! How come even though i disagree with the statement except as a form of surrealism i can't laugh with it without feeling mean and disgusting?

-mason

[mason]

Doug,

Is something wrong at PBS or are they rejecting everyone's posts, for specific reasons? Something seems very odd?

-mason

[Douglas]

Not sure what you mean.
There was one post from you I hadn't approved until this morning. I was on a plane yesterday. But what is odd?

[mason]

I have tried posting a number of times and the damn "process wheel" starts turning around, but never stops. Once left browser tab open for an hour, came back, still turning. And hardly anyone is posting in the margins. Just wondering if lots of folks are getting the eternal process wheel.

:-|

Man, i wish your forum folks would catch afire....

-mason

[Chrys]

Wow, that's a really busy web site. I've had it up in my browser for a couple of days now and I just can't get into it.

[ncaigl ncaigl]

If you wish to be the best man, you must suffer the bitterest of the bitter. rwexii rwexii - supra footwear.