Just came across this video on Adaptive Path's blog of Bruce Sterling talking about Interaction Design: Bruce Sterling from Innovationsforum on Vimeo. Missed him at SxSW this year, but this video gave me my fix. He's really clear on what spimes are right at the beginning. He has to…
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Sometimes one wants to encourage rhizomatic behavior. This is possible and rhizohms will thrive when provided care. But controlling rhizohms is difficult. They resist being shaped or trained. There is the case when a rhizohm that has been nurtured can grow out of control. …
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I've spent the morning playing with OpenSocial. After all, OpenSocial fits in with my conceptualization of the rhizohm and my general interest in web APIs. Plus, I want to be ready to get at all that data on MySpace. I'm always interested in abstractions of data, which is really wh…
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The inspiration for this neologism -- which mashes up rhizome + ohm -- are the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, in particular the introduction to their book, A thousand plateaus [1], in which they articulate a vision and explication of rhizomatic systems. A rhizome, in …
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