Inferno: Social Structure in Social Software (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

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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/