The arrival of continuous computing means that people who live in populated areas of developed countries (and increasingly, developing ones such as China and India) can spend entire days inside a kind of invisible, portable "information field." This field is created by constant, largely automated cooperation between

· The digital devices people carry, such as laptops, media players, and camera phones
· The wireline and wireless networks that serve people's locations as they travel about, and
· The Internet and its growing collection of Web-based tools for finding information and communicating and collaborating with other people.

This information field enables people to both pull information about virtually anything from anywhere, at any time, and push their own ideas and personalities back onto the Internet--without ever having to sit down at a desktop computer. Armed with nothing more than a smart phone, a modern urbanite can get the answer to almost any question; locate nearby colleagues, friends, and services; join virtual communities that form and disband rapidly around shared work and shared interests; and self-publish blog entries, photographs, audio recordings, and videos for an unlimited audience.

A guide to Slashdot's Moderation Scheme: "For me the most interesting aspects of the Slashdot moderation model is that it attempts to create a political structure without overt heirarchy - with a view to creating self-running communities that don't need external intervention to keep them on track. Most online communities are pretty much despotic in structure (with oligarchies or monarchically governed rural fiefdoms being other common models)."

Dazu gibt es aber auch noch viel mehr Links. So fand ich z.B. dies hier ganz interessant, wo mit diesem Modell verschiedene »Entiwcklungsspiele« aufgezeigt werden.