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Kurt Laitner

Attacked from Within || kuro5hin.org - 0 views

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*identity anonymity community society behavior moderation *trust

shared by Kurt Laitner on 14 Oct 10 - Cached
  • German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies first investigated the difference between 'community' and 'society' (respectively, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft). Small groups can exist in a sense of organic community, not requiring formal rules because a sense of common mores or norms unite them. Personal relationships can be cultivated and are quite strong, and there is little need for external enforcement. John Allen's quaint description of early Usenet illustrates Tönnies' idea of community. Larger groups find community hard to sustain. Individual interest rules behavior rather than common mores. Society, as opposed to community, is based on explicit rules that require enforcement. Society possesses greater flexibility and potentially more capability, but individuals are subject to greater anomie and anti-social behavior. Internal factional conflicts occur more frequently, despite the greater modularity of individuals' function in society.
  • Society scales easily because users are interchangeable, community scales with difficulty because relationships and identity are not interchangeable.
  • we run into two opposing conceptions of identity: persistent identity and anonymity.
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  • The political science terms for what Shirky is trying to say are 'asset specificity' and 'selective incentives.' Users need to earn non-portable assets on an individual basis as a reward for constructive contributions to the community.
  • Dupe accounts, much like the shady accounting practices that allowed Enron to shift all its losses onto the balance sheets of fictive subsidiary corporations, allow the user's principal account to retain any specific incentives for constructive behavior while shifting all of the negative moderation and other penalties off onto the dupes.
  • Kurt Laitner on 14 Oct 10
     
    Some absolutely brilliant bits in here - especially ambient communities, I riff off of this that everyone starts anon themselves and to everyone else, interaction quality causes the 'other identity' to begin to crystallize and be symbolically represented, and that this 'other' need not be mapped to a natural person, this gets really very very interesting at this point so I go away and think - wildcat, your thoughts?
Kurt Laitner

Blaine Cook Introduces Us To Webfinger | socialmedia.net - Navigating New Horizons - 0 views

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Diaspora webfinger

shared by Kurt Laitner on 19 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Kurt Laitner on 19 Sep 10
     
    Another way to own your data? Certainly talks up the position but not sure how stable web urls for identities are sufficient - ther may be more to this but it is good to see the meme getting traction - love the share cropping analogy - also love the "Facebook is like a wedding from hell .. You've got your mom sitting next to your boss and you wife beside your ex girlfriend"
Kurt Laitner

Identity and Authorization - 3 views

note that many feel this should be a third party provided feature, at the very least it should have a layer of indirection between it and the remainder of the system

started by Kurt Laitner on 04 Jan 10 1 follow-up, last by Kurt Laitner on 04 Jan 10
Kurt Laitner

fav.or.it | Bringing Blogging to the Masses - 2 views

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conversation tracking identity federation surfacing simple threads

shared by Kurt Laitner on 19 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Kurt Laitner on 19 Feb 10
     
    I may have to play with this, a lot of good ideas in one place, especially like to see what is described as 'simple threads' combining time order and context.. hmm
  • Kurt Laitner on 22 Feb 10
     
    ah too bad, deadpool
Kurt Laitner

UnHub | Home - 0 views

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identity profiles

shared by Kurt Laitner on 19 Feb 10 - Cached
fishead ...*∞º˙

How Many Is Too Many Twitter Followers? - Community - Gizmodo - 4 views

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shared by fishead ...*∞º˙ on 27 Jan 10 - Cached
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  • It's not really a problem for me, with my single-digit Twitter following, but anecdotal evidence shows that once a social networking community gets too big, the back-and-forth that created it evaporates. What I'm saying is, Ashton Kutcher is very lonely. A Wired editorial defends the idea of online obscurity, that those smaller groups and their casual sense of community have something that should be admired and retained. Once a group gets too big, members fade into the background, not wanting to speak in front of such a large audience, and in the case of Twitter, the person being followed becomes larger than life. It's an interesting idea—should we be more vigilant in protecting the small groups of which we're a part? [Wired]
    • Jack Logan
      Jack Logan on 27 Jan 10
       
      100 is too many!
  • frank smith on 27 Jan 10
     
    so we are not the only ones discovering that it is the more of the social and less of the network...so, the network is the issue???
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 27 Jan 10
     
    I think it's an issue more of human attention span and capability. It's much easier to keep tabs on and interact with a smaller group because we lack the ability to divide our attentions out beyond a certain point. There are already enough distractions in the world between family, work, neighborhood, town, city, state, country, etc. Adding another layer of interaction complicates everything else that is going around. In a small group, voices can be picked out from the crowd and heard--attended to. In a large group, a single voice gets drowned by the activity of everyone else, and the 'group' loses identity as a group, and becomes a mob. Besides, I like the bulletin board analogy--it really brought this idea. Time to stop looking at all the pinheads and pair down the clutter, right?
François Dongier

Drupal Gardens launches in private beta | Drupal Gardens - 0 views

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drupal drupalgardens

shared by François Dongier on 28 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Drupal Gardens is a hosted version of Drupal so you don't have to worry about installation, hosting or upgrading
  • Drupal Gardens is a gem in the rough, built on the Drupal 7 core - currently in an alpha release - extended with functionality such as a WYSIWYG editor (CKeditor), media management, a theme builder, and basic "query builder" (i.e. simpleviews) capability. We're working with the various module maintainers, and contributing back almost all of our development efforts to the Drupal community. Architecturally, Drupal Gardens is built on the ideas of an open social web; we markup data with RDFa, we implemented single-sign on using OpenID as our identity layer, we integrate with third-party services, and we allow people to export the code, the theme and data that makes up their site. We'll be sharing more technical details as we make progress, but we like to believe it will be a hosted service "done right".
    • François Dongier
      François Dongier on 28 Jan 10
       
      Check the video on the Drupalgardens.com homepage. There's an other one here: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/drupal-goes-hosted-launches-gardens-in-private-beta-006537.php
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