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March 2007 - Posts

Tuesday, March 27, 2007 11:43 AM

Two weeks in the field...

I'm spending the next two weeks meeting with Microsoft subsidiaries. I, of course, am interested in community. How do these teams view community? How do they see their conversations, online in particular, evolving over the next months and years? What
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Monday, March 19, 2007 4:32 AM

High hopes for Convergence Culture

So far so good. Here's a quote worth remembering: Quoting Pierre Levy : "No one knows everything, everyone knows something, all knowledge resides in humanity." I wonder if Pierre would be unhappy if I substituted community for humanity? I suppose we'd
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Monday, March 19, 2007 4:21 AM

Things worthwhile about The Starfish and The Spider

The first 27 pages. The discussion of the Catalyst -- especially in contrast to the CEO. The notion of attacking decentralization by centralizing them (if you really must act offensively) The (imho more enlightened notion) of attacking decentralization
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:02 PM

Social Network sites gaining in popularity

Jeez, social site activity up, trends up, social networking on a role. Here's a good link: http://weblogs.hitwise.com/leeann-prescott/2007/03... So I wonder if my other example of social networking -- your RSS reader -- is picking up speed equally as
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Sunday, March 11, 2007 12:51 AM

Social Networks are not all created equal.

From Wikipedia: A social network is a social structure made of nodes which are generally individuals or organizations. It indicates the ways in which they are connected through various social familiarities ranging from casual acquaintance to close familial
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Friday, March 09, 2007 5:22 AM

Sony's catching on -- you had to figure it would happen.

Their own Second Life clone as the front end to their gamer social system. If history is any teacher, we should start a poll to see how long it takes us to do something similar. Hmm, while likely accurate, it does sound like a cop out -- criticizing without
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Sunday, March 04, 2007 7:14 PM

Just a little more on -- What is Community

I can't help myself. I'm bent on doing my utmost to come to some agreement on the meaning of terms under discussion. It's become top-of-mind for me recently because my group has been part of a general reorganization and the slow process of understanding
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