Citizen Engineer

This site got totally spammed, so I had to clean up the user logins and clean out the Book forum. Apologies if I messed any real accounts or content up - I don't think I did, but you never know. If you have any questions, please contact me at dd at this domain.

A potentially very open source tool out of MIT to help with mapping supply chains for products. I like the idea of making it a crowd-sourcing exercise - there's no overall economic gain if everyone reproduces the same work.

Sourcemap: http://www.sourcemap.org/beta/stage/index.php

The book is out and available on-line, but doesn't appear to be available in stores yet.

InformIT (the publisher's site), Amazon, B&N and Borders all see to have it available (see links to the right). Note that there is a Kindle version available - people email'ed me last week that they'd gotten their Kindle copy already (available off of the Amazon book page - again, click to the right).

Borders says it isn't available in stores yet on their website, and I haven't heard of anyone buying one there yet.

Note that there is also an audio version in the works, more details to come.

Dave is on the opening panel of the 20th anniversary Ceres conference.

They will replay Greg's taped discussion of Citizen Engineer today at 8:37am. Here's the archived recording.

Greg will be discussing Citizen Engineer in a taped segment airing on Monday the 13th at 6:06am, 7:35am and 11:33am. Here's the archived recording.

Greg and Dave recently authored an op-ed for on-line Financial Times.

Greg and Dave will talk about Citizen Engineer with Krista Van Tassel of NetImpact. For more info about this event, please visit the NetImpact website.