Social Networking Models.

 

Another wave of online communities is underway. The first wave, beginning with the Well, took advantage of the social adoption of email to build community upon Usenet, bulletin boards and forums.  A basis of trust in email-style interfaces and conventions enabled pooled discussion.  This wave takes advantage of the social adoption of the web to build community upon web-native tools.  Because the web is more diverse environment so too are the tools.  The physical and logical infrastructure of the web has reached a maturity while usage has surpassed a tipping point where it is ingrained in most people’s lives.  As people have become participants on the web, they are building a new social infrastructure, connection by connection.

 

Social Networking Models
Network Type	Connection	Example
Explicit	Declarative	Ryze
Physical	In-person	Meetup
Conversational	Communication	LiveJournal; Weblogs
Private	Referral	Friendster
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Weblogs as filtering tools.

Why blogging isn’t a fad. Arnold Kling offers one of the best explanations I’ve seen of the value of blogging as a distributed information filtering mechanism.

“This filtering process makes all of us more efficient. Information with low value does not travel far. Information with high general value tends to travel the farthest.

Sehr nützliches Tool für Radio, zumal man sich aussuchen kann (durch eine eigenes *.opml) welche Abos man auf diesem Weg lesen möchte. Allerdings Radio muss laufen und Veränderungen upstreamen, sonst bleibt’s bei den alten News, würde ich glauben.

PHPmySubscriptions is “a simple tool to read the news of your Radio aggregator on the Web, when you are away from your Radio.” [Scripting News]

Wasserman, Jim. “Analyst: Internet File-Sharing Bigger Than Record Business.” San Francisco Chronicle, 27 March 2003: Internet analyst Eric Garland tells the Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry that sharing music files via peer-to-peer networks is “fundamentally unstoppable.” [Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog, UofTX]