Open Source, User Innovation: von Hippel networks allow developers to do (just) what they want horizontal innovation sufficient incentive incentive [...]
notes on Homophily
Birds of a Feather, McPherson, Smith-Lovin, Cook homophily by demographic vs. psychological characteristics baseline vs. inbreeding baseline = demography of [...]
Granovetter
notes from The Strength of Weak Ties: Emphasis on weak ties lends itself to discussion of relations between groups and [...]
Link Love and Mourning Doves: The Encyclopedia of Life’s Civic Worth and Online Challenges
The Encyclopedia of Life (eol.org) is a self-described “major undertaking”. By sourcing scientists, pre-existing scientific organizations and lists, and citizen [...]
Zuckerman and Lehrer + Poptech
Ethan Zuckerman, ARS Electronica 2009 cloud implies an internet that is so pervasive that maps don’t matter, because too complicated [...]
Looky-Loos, Rewards, and Fines
“Romancing the Looky-Loos,” Dave Hickey (from Air Guitar) A call for active participants. “Civilians were nonparticipants, people who did not [...]
Can’t We Just Call it Dramione and be Done with it?:” Deference and Authority in a FanFic Decision
When a server error caused a popular fanfic site, Coloured Grey, to close, administrators re-opened the archive, but they wanted [...]
Dilemas
Small Groups as Complex Systems, Holly Arrow, Joseph McGrath, Jennifer Berdahl Four forces of Formation 1. concocted (external, planned) 2. [...]
