Dunbar, Altruistic Punishment, and Meta-Moderation
In any group process look for the commons, allow participants to participate in identifing defectors; determine what the costs are for such identification [...] and encourage participatio...
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http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2005/03/dunbar_altruist.html
In any group process look for the commons, allow participants to participate in identifing defectors; determine what the costs are for such identification [...] and encourage participatio...
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http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2005/03/dunbar_altruist.html
RE: Barriers to Interoperability
The challenges to interoperabilty are mostly non-technical, although that does not make the technical ones any easier.
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http://shollersmusings.blogspot.com/2005/06/re-barriers-to-interoperability.html
The challenges to interoperabilty are mostly non-technical, although that does not make the technical ones any easier.
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http://shollersmusings.blogspot.com/2005/06/re-barriers-to-interoperability.html
Building a successful online community
If you have a strong and consistent culture, [...] the community starts moderating itself. When enough people are behaving in a certain way, and that hits critical mass, it becomes not on...
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http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/06/building_a_succ.html
If you have a strong and consistent culture, [...] the community starts moderating itself. When enough people are behaving in a certain way, and that hits critical mass, it becomes not on...
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http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/06/building_a_succ.html
Open source: Are Microsoft and other holdouts about to crack?
As evidenced by the way Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has adjusted his open source rhetoric [...], commercial software companies are clearly being motivated by the market to adopt an increa...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1597&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
As evidenced by the way Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has adjusted his open source rhetoric [...], commercial software companies are clearly being motivated by the market to adopt an increa...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1597&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Learning to Pay Attention
We are surrounded by mediocrity and sameness and efficiency and noise that exhibit no integrity, dignity, subtlety [...]. And at the same time we are constantly barraged by assaults on ou...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/07/11.html#a1207
We are surrounded by mediocrity and sameness and efficiency and noise that exhibit no integrity, dignity, subtlety [...]. And at the same time we are constantly barraged by assaults on ou...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/07/11.html#a1207
Web 2.0: Children of Miners and Prostitutes
What is new is a burgeoning awareness of all this, as if people are suddenly realizing that, quite without expecting it, the future had grown up around them.
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http://www.understandingxml.com/archives/2005/06/web_20_when_aja.html
What is new is a burgeoning awareness of all this, as if people are suddenly realizing that, quite without expecting it, the future had grown up around them.
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http://www.understandingxml.com/archives/2005/06/web_20_when_aja.html
Why generic XML on the web is a bad idea
Using XML or even RDF serialized as XML you can describe your content much better and in far more detail [than in HTML], but there is no search engine out there that will understand you.
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http://annevankesteren.nl/2005/05/generic-xml
Using XML or even RDF serialized as XML you can describe your content much better and in far more detail [than in HTML], but there is no search engine out there that will understand you.
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http://annevankesteren.nl/2005/05/generic-xml
Made for the distributed world
Recognize that people will write about what they want to write about where they want to write about it.
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http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2005_07_17.html#010056
Recognize that people will write about what they want to write about where they want to write about it.
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http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2005_07_17.html#010056
Don’t take your memes to town
People’s ability to innovate is improving and that seems to come about by accepting Web thinking as much as any recent improvement in the toolchain. [...] Adapt your business or technol...
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http://lesscode.org/2005/08/07/dont-take-your-memes-to-town
People’s ability to innovate is improving and that seems to come about by accepting Web thinking as much as any recent improvement in the toolchain. [...] Adapt your business or technol...
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http://lesscode.org/2005/08/07/dont-take-your-memes-to-town
Web 2.0 and All That
Web 2.0 is an attitude not a technology. It’s about enabling and encouraging participation through open applications and services.
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http://internetalchemy.org/2005/07/talis-web-20-and-all-that
Web 2.0 is an attitude not a technology. It’s about enabling and encouraging participation through open applications and services.
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http://internetalchemy.org/2005/07/talis-web-20-and-all-that
Bubble physics
Market ''bubbles" in houses, stocks, or anything else are just about as inevitable as earthquakes or floods, rising up out of the stream of humanity by virtue of the most elementary of hu...
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/08/07/bubble_physics
Market ''bubbles" in houses, stocks, or anything else are just about as inevitable as earthquakes or floods, rising up out of the stream of humanity by virtue of the most elementary of hu...
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/08/07/bubble_physics
RSS as brand
When a technology becomes transformational, society needs a term for the resulting revolution. Usually people find it most convenient to take the name of the technology and generalize it...
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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jim/2005/08/15#a1006
When a technology becomes transformational, society needs a term for the resulting revolution. Usually people find it most convenient to take the name of the technology and generalize it...
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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jim/2005/08/15#a1006
Somalia and the Absence of Central Government
The emergence of the nation state and a common legal system [is believed to be one of the enablers for impersonal trade] . The Somali case shows that customary law is far more important t...
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http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2006/02/yumi_kim_from_t.html
The emergence of the nation state and a common legal system [is believed to be one of the enablers for impersonal trade] . The Somali case shows that customary law is far more important t...
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http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2006/02/yumi_kim_from_t.html
Prestige, Status, and Culture
Comparative excellence style prestige is pretty clearly going to correlate with greater earnings in general. The higher the prestige in a domain, the fiercer the bidding from clients for ...
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http://happinesspolicy.com/2006/04/07/prestige-status-and-culture
Comparative excellence style prestige is pretty clearly going to correlate with greater earnings in general. The higher the prestige in a domain, the fiercer the bidding from clients for ...
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http://happinesspolicy.com/2006/04/07/prestige-status-and-culture
What You Can't Say
Nerds are always getting in trouble. They say improper things for the same reason they dress unfashionably and have good ideas: convention has less hold over them.
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http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Nerds are always getting in trouble. They say improper things for the same reason they dress unfashionably and have good ideas: convention has less hold over them.
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http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
The Young Economist’s Guide to Professional Etiquette
Nearly all advanced graduate students and new assistant professors demonstrate astounding naiveté in their non-substantive professional dealings.
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http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wstarbuc/Writing/Etiquet.htm
Nearly all advanced graduate students and new assistant professors demonstrate astounding naiveté in their non-substantive professional dealings.
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http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wstarbuc/Writing/Etiquet.htm
Unpopularity is good, ask Weber
Mediocrity rises to the top of academia, not the cream. This is due to rules of cooperation. If you’re too good, you’re too different, and we don’t want to play with you.
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http://prairiesociology.blogspot.com/2005/06/unpopularity-is-good-ask-weber.html
Mediocrity rises to the top of academia, not the cream. This is due to rules of cooperation. If you’re too good, you’re too different, and we don’t want to play with you.
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http://prairiesociology.blogspot.com/2005/06/unpopularity-is-good-ask-weber.html
'Economic Man' vs. 'Status Man'
I suspect that the most likely alternative to economic motivation is a worse motive: status-seeking. I believe that is more important to curb our lust for status than our lust for goods a...
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/100405A.html
I suspect that the most likely alternative to economic motivation is a worse motive: status-seeking. I believe that is more important to curb our lust for status than our lust for goods a...
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/100405A.html
Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging
A tag should be unique but memorable; something that identifies your cause without being so vague that it could cover a broad spectrum of issues.
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http://www.techsoup.org/howto/articles/webbuilding/page4519.cfm
A tag should be unique but memorable; something that identifies your cause without being so vague that it could cover a broad spectrum of issues.
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http://www.techsoup.org/howto/articles/webbuilding/page4519.cfm