{"id":1133,"date":"2007-03-20T12:19:06","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2007-03-20T12:19:06","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T20:19:06","slug":"the-rapture-of-wirearchy-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/the-rapture-of-wirearchy-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The rapture of wirearchy begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Jon Husband is alive for the signs that new organizational forms are upon us. \u00a0 He found one today that really rang out for me. \u00a0 It seems that Amerian bloggers having been using distributed networks of readers to find the patterns of organization in a government conspiracy.<\/a><\/p>\n

This is not tin-foil hat stuff. \u00a0 It’s the real deal, with an alarming plan<\/a> to engineer the firing a number of United States Attorneys for political reasons. \u00a0 The bigest challenge for the bloggers who are following the story is to stay on top of the thousands of documents a day that are being released, almost in an effort to flood the public with disclosure. \u00a0 How do you find the gems? \u00a0 Well, if every reader of these well read blogs were to pick a couple of pages and harvets the nuggets, they could almost discover the actual plan pretty quickly, in theory anyway. \u00a0 And in practice, that is what’s happening<\/a>. \u00a0 Within hours, the bloggers had begun to make some serious findings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m quite interested in this, and thinking about how it might be a model for building things as well as taking them down. \u00a0 For example, I’m wondering how we might use a community of stakeholders\/readers to sift through harvests from an engagement process to find the meaning that points the way forward. \u00a0 It would be a collective harvest of people’s own work, fed back into the system so that it may be developed further. \u00a0 From that, an emergent, collective set of patterns can be made visible, upon which something new can be designed.
\nAs I think about this, and how the process would work both for uncovering a gpovernment conspiracy and building a new approach to social services for example, I am left with the following principles of practice:<\/p>\n

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  1. Agree collectively as to the purpose of the joint inquiry (uncover a government plan, build a new community-based approach to child and youth mental health, etc.)<\/li>\n
  2. Conduct getherings to collect a lot of diverse wisdom and thinking about the inquiry.<\/li>\n
  3. Harvest detailed notes from initial conversations, but don’t make meaning from them right away.<\/li>\n
  4. Invite anyone to read whatever they want of the documents and select the pieces that seem to have the most relvance and benefit to the inquiry at hand. \u00a0 It would seem to be a good idea to have a large and diverse number of people to do this, especially if you had a substantial and complex inquiry and body of thought.<\/li>\n
  5. Make this second level harvest visible and begin pattern finding within what is emerging, all the while feeding that back to the system to both show progress and te help people go back and find additional meaning and wisdom to support what is emerging.<\/li>\n
  6. Have a further inquiry to tap creativity to fill the gaps that are being noticed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Just a sketch at this point, but I have a place where I might be able to try it on a smaller scale. \u00a0 One could use this anywhere one had a large number of people that were contributing to a project that affected them. \u00a0 Wirearchy changes public engagement and makes it more democratic.<\/p>\n

    Very cool indeed. \u00a0 Thanks for the heads up Jon!<\/p>\n

    [tags]wirearchy, governance, public engagement[\/tags]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My friend Jon Husband is alive for the signs that new organizational forms are upon us. \u00a0 He found one today that really rang out for me. \u00a0 It seems that Amerian bloggers having been using distributed networks of readers to find the patterns of organization in a government conspiracy. This is not tin-foil hat stuff. \u00a0 It’s the real deal, with an alarming plan to engineer the firing a number of United States Attorneys for political reasons. \u00a0 The bigest challenge for the bloggers who are following the story is to stay on top of the thousands of documents …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[28,30,22,18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-harvesting","category-coho","category-collaboration","category-emergence","category-organization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-ih","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}