These can exhibit phenomena called self-organized criticality.    From Wordnik.com.  ["War of the Weasels" article in new Skeptical Inquirer - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Social Poker: An experimental probe of self-organized cooperation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Intimate Transactions] Reference

I do agree that mental processes are nonlinear and self-organized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causal Consciousness – Science of Mind] Reference

Beehives and other social insect colonies are indeed self-organized.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Sloan Wilson: The Invisible Hand is Dead. Long Live (Smart) Regulation.] Reference

The advantage is that it is a self-organized and pre-approved internet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Wars on the Internet] Reference

Social Poker: An experimental probe of self-organized cooperation next.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Tagging fever] Reference

It doesn't necessarily make money and it is run by self-organized amateurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Bollier: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own] Reference

Their results suggest that the brain operates in a self-organized critical state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain Lives ‘On The Edge Of Chaos’ | Impact Lab] Reference

Flashmobs and other forms of participatory-mediated, self-organized entertainment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Case Histories on Participatory Media and Collective Action] Reference

Of course, the self-organized session Reaching the Public was the most important.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Week's Take Back America Conference - Building Bridges] Reference

Very recently a new theory of self-organized criticality was developed in physics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now on SSRN: Law, War, and the History of Time] Reference

Thus citizens have self-organized into a national real-time typhoon monitoring system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shinichi Takemura: Designing a Multiperson Planetary Consciousness] Reference

The best: in a collaborative fashion (texts and images), dialogical and self-organized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices in English » Brazil: When climate change meets cyber-activism] Reference

CHETRY: Now that so-called, self-organized sting operation is apparently caught on tape.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2007] Reference

He appealed to people on the internet and mustered an army of self-organized volunteers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices in English » China: A citizen campaign to reveal the forgotten dead] Reference

Apparently, this was how she self-organized around discord as a child in her family of origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Cara Barker: How To Voice Your Feelings Without Blowing Your Holiday Cork] Reference

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Social Poker: An experimental probe of self-organized cooperation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Social Poker: An experimental probe of self-organized cooperation] Reference

Q Was this a self-organized group of opponents, or was it a group assembled by the White House?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference

These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deborah Bassett: Breaking The Plastic Addiction: TEDx Great Pacific Garbage Patch] Reference

Together, we'll bring this film back to a mass audience, but in a self-organized, grassroots way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: January 23, 2005 - January 29, 2005 Archives] Reference

Now, though, I think I have glimpsed a better idea: the self-organized learning environment SOLE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turning Kids From India's Slums Into Autodidacts] Reference

But for a relatively young, self-organized political organization, these are good problems to have.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ari Melber: In First Interview, New MoveOn Director Backs The President, For a Change] Reference

"I think people are going to look at us as a model ... at how fast and efficiently we self-organized.".    From Wordnik.com.  [In Big Sur, Web Site] Reference

There were at least two workshops on voter outreach; also a self-organized session, "Election Protection 2008.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes from the Take Back America Conference] Reference

At each level the systems are self-organized and semi-autonomous and also work together to form the whole body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humans Ensouling New Level] Reference

Suppose fads were a form of self-organized criticality arising out of the chaotic system of the popular culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Futures Imperfect]

Performance costs are usually financed by fundraising in the community, often by self-organized Ramlila Committees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference

In the ensuing months, the movement self-organized and coalesced into Coffee Party chapters in communities nationwide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeffrey Abelson: The UnConvention] Reference

And I found this absolutely fascinating, these kind of self-organized tiny groups of people who are meeting regularly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Agent Nation: How America�s New Independent Workers are Transforming the Way We Live] Reference

At the time of publishing this post over 1,500 people have self-organized and scheduled 300+ Meetups around the world on June 8th.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Clark Estes: HuffPost Meetup On June 8th To Discuss Gulf Oil Spill] Reference

Health Policy House Parties: The Obama transition team has launched self-organized community meetings on health care over the holidays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Digest: Microfundraising Meets Conservative Community Building] Reference

TEDxSMU A self-organized offshoot of the TED conference series, challenging old boundaries between art and science, dreaming and innovation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideas Calendar: Oct. 16-22] Reference

Employees can forge their own self-organized interconnections and form cross-functional teams capable of interacting as a global, real-time workforce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Tapscott: Learning From Nature How to Build Better Organizations] Reference

But more than just a high-tech turn on an ages-old campaign tactic, the Obama approach has turned these college kids into a self-organized, self-driven campaign outpost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Digest: Swing Staters Getting an Earful from Obama Campaign(s)] Reference

Its inhabitants were self-organized bodies of freeholders, pressing upon the receding forests, winning their way farther and farther forward every year, and never going back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference