{"id":174,"date":"2008-02-15T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T14:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dgen.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/15\/howard-rheingold\/"},"modified":"2008-03-29T15:29:26","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T15:29:26","slug":"howard-rheingold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/2008\/02\/15\/howard-rheingold\/","title":{"rendered":"Our instinct to work as a group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From TED Talks: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/view\/id\/216\">Howard Rheingold<\/a> talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action &#8212; and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons.<\/p>\n<p><!--cut and paste--><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" width=\"320\" height=\"285\" id=\"VE_Player\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/loader.swf\"><\/param><param NAME=\"FlashVars\" VALUE=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&#038;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/HOWARDRHEINGOLD-2005_high.flv&#038;autoPlay=false&#038;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&#038;forcePlay=false&#038;logo=&#038;allowFullscreen=true\"><\/param><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><\/param><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>\nI also can&#8217;t ignore the other TED themes this month: Music and Rockets, with George Dyson (who provided me wih some useful advice for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amee.cc\">AMEE<\/a>) talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/view\/id\/221\">Rockets to Saturn<\/a> and Pamelia Kurstin discussing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/view\/id\/218\">Theremin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From TED Talks: Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action &#8212; and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-2O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}