2008/11/16 Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net:
on 11/15/08 6:57 PM, David Gerard at dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (Clay Shirky): http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html Note that Wikipedia is given as an example of a group that had evaded this. Oh well.
David, that speech was given five years ago. I am trying to present to today.
That's what I mean: it didn't evade this. I've seen the dynamics described in that paper myself over and over on the net in the past twenty years.
- d.