Community is hard, and so is pretty much all social stuff. But why is so darn hard? Why […]
Why community is hard
Size Matters
early draft of a section from 2nd edition of blueprints We all would like to think there was […]
A Pattern Language (for Social Media): Common Areas at the Heart
More rereading of Alexander: 129 Common Areas at the Heart Conflict No social group- whether a family, a […]
A Pattern Language: Degrees of Publicness
I picked up A Pattern Language again and I had a bookmark on this pattern 36. Degrees of […]
The WELL: Clay Shirky: Here Comes Everybody
They are discussing Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky in the inkwell: I’ve actually come to regret the […]
Facebook is the next Google (unless they mess up.)
It’s a recursive old world we live in these days, in which ideas are put up on one […]
The Third Place
via Joel on Software’s Building Communities with Software The social scientist Ray Oldenburg talks about how humans need […]