The MakerLab is an autonomous event, it’s a co-created action. This autonomy functions best within a frame (note: I still need to write the post on frame design), and has to begin somewhere. The Planning Party marks the beginning of opening the process – an event catalyst to begin actions, inspire and create opportunities for […]
Category Archives: Jay’s Lexicon
Jay’s Lexicon – Augmented Content
There’s been a lot of talk of content, and user generated content, but strangely the phrase augmented content I find greatly overlooked. Especially as the process of content augmentation is one which we appear to be constantly engaged in, albiet at the moment in a limited form. Augmenting tweets by linking to urls and blogs, […]
Power Tools – Tools that shape the world
Everything is a tool of everything else. We are the tools of Wheat and Grass – http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/214, yet they are also the tools of us. The same applys to religion, our bodies, our minds, rocks, everything. Everything uses everything else. Everything is a tool, be it physical and tangible or virtual, notional and ideological. Power […]
Social Inertia
Another social phenomenon, which I first observed (or moreso interpreted) whilst out with a drunken group of freinds and trying to leave the pub to move to the next one. The polite thing to do is to let everyone know that you’re going after this drink and then get ready to leave. Two hours later, […]
Wikiparliament
Definition. Where (and when) people really do have power over the decisions that shape their lives. Wikiparliament is where politics meets the peer society (ebay, wikipedia, amazon, ect) and power and with it responsibility are returned to society. Wikiparliament will begin outside of the current political template and through the blueprint below transfer the publics […]
Futurescript
The books we read influence our thoughts and ideas, they create our historical view and also with respect to science fiction our view of what the future will hold. These are containers for memes (Dawkins idea virus’s) that can perpetuate and take hold in the mind of the reader. Given the power of books and […]
Knowledge Distillation
How many books, concepts and ideas can be surmissed far more concisely than they are. Whilst there is beauty to be found in expanding an argument, and justification and evidence is required. Do we all need to read all the evidence for everything? We already take so much as read and this process already happens, […]
Emotional Osmosis
We absorb the emotions of those around us which in turn affect our own feelings and behaviours. Some of us are more susceptible then others, but we all suffer from this process, much as we may find it an abhorrent assault to our rationality. To find reason cast aside on a wave of emotion and […]
What is Jay’s Lexicon
When something is thought, it enters the realm of possibility. When it can be conveyed in a word it has greater potential to spread. Or in other words Jay’s lexicon is a collection of meme’s that I hope will be adopted.
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