---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:23:45 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Inferno: Social Structure in Social Software Tangent started by noting Clay Shirky's keynote "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy: Social Structure in Social Software" at the recent Emerging Tech Conference. Seems to be an interesting source/extension/application of Lessig's "code/architecture as law" observation. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2003/view/e_sess/3625 Looks like this is the gist: "Social Software and the Politics of Groups" by Clay Shirky http://shirky.com/writings/group_politics.html TalkBack blog links of conference session attendees: http://undergroundlondon.com/antimega/archives/000081.html http://craphound.com/shirkyetcon2003.txt An interesting less optimistic viewpoint of the influence of social software: http://www.theisociety.net/archives/000585.html#000585 Links re: Wilfred Bion http://psychematters.com/bibliographies/bion.htm http://www.mythosandlogos.com/Bion.html Clay Shirky http://www.shirky.com/