the original article: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive... - Wildcat

I can't possibly agree to the base idea, the main issue should be advanced forms of filtering,tagging and a comprehensive semantic engine. innovation+creativity in this respect can and should be fostered by walking a fine borderline, unique perspective vs. collaborative understanding - Wildcat

The answer to the title is NO. This is still coming from the premise that there are these creative geniuses that, after deep thinking, come up with something brilliant whereas innovation, I'm sure, nowadays comes from groups of creative people, loosly interconnected, that openly share their ideas and then someone happens to put formerly unconnected things together in a innovative way... But maybe I do not really understand this whining argument ;-) - Mushin Schilling

I think the article points to some valid phenomena, but yes, I sense that the underlying assumption, i.e. that "groupthink" is "bad", may be off the mark. I can see how networking might act to slow innovation or make it more difficult for one person's great idea to take hold. But is slower, group-driven innovation a bad thing? Evolution has done a pretty good job at that so far. ;) - Grey Drane

I also like the idea of using different social networks for different spheres of contacts, but perhaps what's missing from this part of the equation is the fact that you can also trawl the broader statstream and so aren't just limited to the ideas of your peers. That and tools to visualize the interrelationships between the various spheres to, for example, unite your work & personal lives -- while keeping them separate -- as a way, in itself, of driving innovation. But such tools seem to be largely missing. - Grey Drane

Well "networking... make it more difficult for one person's great idea to take hold" - yes, that's possible; and also it might actually speed it up because it is a mutually encouraging network? I think what is really underestimated here is what happens if intelligent and heart-driven people interact, network, group... And also I would second the ideas about evolutions wonderful process of selecting what's good for the larger whole. - Mushin Schilling

For me the twitterverse is a great 'tool' to cross-connect me; still, obviously I'll insist on a basic underlying alignment otherwise it won't function. - Mushin Schilling

correlated : Scenius, Innovation and Epicenters (Worldchanging) - http://www.worldchanging.com/archive... (via http://ff.im/5Hifj) - Wildcat

This might be on topic: http://lesswrong.com/lw... - Alexander Kruel

the point of course is that "underlying alignment" is the most difficult and demanding work, creating a resonant meta-concurrence is the necessary element to make the whole thing work. - Wildcat

Yes Wildcat, surely - and I think that is what we're called to do: co-create and nourish this "underlying alignment" again and again and again until it becomes the new gulf-stream of the collective heartmind & thanks for the links... - Mushin Schilling