Stuart Robinson’s Weblog

Great visualization from Social Software Building Blocks of the variables available to you when designing social interactions.

I find wirearchy to be an increasing useful term for framing many modern trends:

a new governing principle (often called network dynamics) is growing in impact. It is based on increasingly horizontal communications and interaction between people, whether friends, colleagues, citizens, customers, constituents, employees or management

Well, that’s the total cost to the US Department of Defense for the whole New Land Warrior project so far, and below is the current user interface. They can’t coerce their users, soldiers whose lives are on the line, into adopting this system, so the apparent lack of design is quite shocking (at least until you remember half a bil. is only 0.1% of the DoD annual budget).