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Richesse et rareté, par Charles M. A. Clark
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September 2009
bundesrepublik.org - Deutschland von Bürger zu Bürger
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La génération Y va tout changer
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Même si elle n’est pas prête de prendre le pouvoir, la génération Y va prendre sous peu une importance considérable. Ce groupe arrive désormais en masse dans le monde du travail, de la consommation et de la vie citoyenne, et ne peu que redéfinir, par ses pratiques et sa culture, un univers qui pour l’instant semble tout faire pour ne pas avoir à évoluer en profondeur.[...]
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August 2009
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen - cartoon Recombinant Records
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July 2009
l’histoire des Choses | jaiunblog.com | j'ai un blog - graphisme, design, programmation
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June 2009
Dual Perspectives Article
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De la lutte des classes à l'expression des classes. Le journal définissant une éliteUser-created online culture isn't "mass culture," exactly; no single blog post gets as much exposure as, say, an episode of American Idol. But it's culture by the masses.
PERSPECTIVE NUMERIQUE
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May 2009
Pourquoi n'avons-nous pas un cerveau vert ?
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Seb's Open Research: Stocks, Flows, and Upkeep in Social Media
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karlcow said...
Fascinating and very interesting. I may add another law to your experiment, though it would have to be repeated again to see if it's working.
Law 3: A fractal pattern encourages participation.
A fractal pattern is simple enough that the gratification is direct. One can draw a small shape which already makes sense to the person. (I have participated!). But because of the self-structure of fractal pattern, one is participating to a bigger scheme. Sense of collective achievement with grand goals.
Once the structure is big enough, it becomes visible, organized and then it is an object of power, which in return is its weakness. (Colonial states versus Guerrilla/Terrorism). Wikipedia becomes so big that it fights for copyright or have editors censoring content.
Though I kind of disagree with the conclusion of blogs versus wikis. Blogs are indeed easier to maintain but would it be because wikis are not really object of the commons, aka, there is still someone owning the object, it is a property of someone in the end.
I wonder also if there is a density rule in action. A tribe in a large forest with free will to move as they please versus a piece of land with a lot of people. There is very little destruction when the space is infinite. Take the drawing above and imagine a space which is infinite (possible in digital space), would participant try to destroy the work of others or just go further away to do their own drawing?
May 20, 2009 1:50 PM
