Talk about an idea whose time has come.  MIT will officially launch on Friday the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI), a new research center whose goal to understand how to harness the power of large numbers of people—connected together through Internet and other technologies —to better solve a range of business, scientific, and societal […]

The battle to keep alive the second nomination of Enterprise 2.0 for inclusion in Wikipedia rages on over on the Articles for Deletion page where embattled WP regulars have circled the wagons against outside intruders with new ideas.  Oh, well.  Democracy is messy.  Since the opinions of frequent contributors are more heavily weighted than those of us […]

As the three or four hundred people who are following closely the Enterprise 2.0 - Wikipedia smackdown probably know, Ross Mayfield has made a heroic effort to resurrect the deleted E2.0 entry (and, by the way, how can we take seriously a Wikipedia cop who doesn’t know the difference between “it’s” and “its?).  Ross has […]

A couple of weeks ago a young South African entrepreneur named Mike Stopforth started a Wikipedia entry on “Enterprise 2.0″ and invited a number of people, including me, to help flesh it out.  While I was giving the idea some thought, a Wikipedia cop took it down on the basis, I suppose, that it failed to rise to Wikipedia’s usual charitable […]