What can wikis offer blogging, and vice versa, particularly in a decentralised collective intelligence environment? Preface: This is a lightly edited repost of a permanent version of a TfTMap massive wiki page. Are you reading a blog post or a wiki page right now? …

Help us map the Tools4Thought landscape and pilot decentralised collective intelligence tools in the process. This post is based on the Tools for Thought Map pilot project, and is also part of an interconnected series of posts exploring how a decentralised ecosystem for collective intelligence could be bootstrapped into existence. …

Anyone training an AI system as they use it should own it via a data union. This is one of several posts exploring how a decentralised ecosystem for collective intelligence could be bootstrapped into existence. As set out in my introductory post (above), I’m exploring these questions by re-imagining how…

A personalised, decentralised Social Knowledge Graph for each user multiplies the knowledge available to them via a trusted network of Followers and Friends, and creating collaborative possibilities more akin to wikis than blogging. This is one of several posts exploring how a decentralised ecosystem for collective intelligence could be bootstrapped…

What would a Tool4Thought designed to support decentralised collective intelligence look like? This is one of several posts exploring how a decentralised ecosystem for collective intelligence could be bootstrapped into existence. As set out in my introductory post (above), I’m exploring these questions by re-imagining MyHub.ai, a publishing platform I…

I spent a few minutes in conversation with ChatGPT. I’ll leave interpretation and critical analysis for another post. Goodbye, New Grub Street Write me a blog post explaining how ChatGPT can write a new blog post for me every day covering the implications of ChatGPT and other LLMs for a wide range of content…

I paid almost no attention to which Mastodon instance I joined a week or two ago — after all it doesn’t matter ‘cos it’s federated, right? When I finally looked at my home server’s directory I found around 200 accounts (only 20 appear publicly; the others didn’t opt in). But…

In late October Richard Medic caught meningitis in Bosnia and died at the age of 50. The only way I can try to process that is to write this. This is what I didn’t have the courage to step up and say at the memorial event held in Brussels a…

I discovered the Fediverse as I kicked MyHub.ai’s shiny new tyres in early 2020, and I’m kicking myself now for not diving in then. This is one in a series of posts derived from my chapter in an upcoming book on Personal Knowledge Graphs, along with or some of the…