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Design & Discussion on Computer Mediated Deliberation - Collaboration
Roberts Rules for the Future

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SmartMobs
Primary Documents
Conceptual Documents
Originating Ideas (Oct. 1998)
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David Brake
Yale Information Society Project
VoxPolitics

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Orgnet Inflow
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Dialog Maps
Visual Vocab
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Visual Story
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Last update: 4/12/2003; 7:01:32 PM.
Tuesday, February 11, 2003

Power Law Distributions

I'm somewhat skeptical of this, but it makes for a fine theory.

A persistent theme among people writing about the social aspects of weblogging is to note (and usually lament) the rise of an A-list, a small set of webloggers who account for a majority of the traffic in the weblog world. This complaint follows a common pattern we've seen with MUDs, BBSes, and online communities like Echo and the WELL. A new social system starts, and seems delightfully free of the elitism and cliquishness of the existing systems. Then, as the new system grows, problems of scale set in. Not everyone can participate in every conversation. Not everyone gets to be heard. Some core group seems more connected than the rest of us, and so on.


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