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Community

Social Software as a Game

March 23, 2006

Three really great links that explore the relationship between a vibrant community site (i.e. Digg, MySpace) and an engaging multiplayer online game.
Casual Games =~ Social Software – Duncan Gough
Putting the Fun in Functional – Amy Jo Kim’s slides from eTech
Write up of Amy Jo’s presentation – Bruce Stewart
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Is it cool to be accessible?

March 22, 2006

Two posts that came together on the same riff but from different angles. Do communities scale?
First Danah Boyd on "coolness"
"Coolness" is about structural barriers, about the lack of universal accessibility or parsability. Structural hurdles mean people put in more effort to participate. It’s kinda like the adventure of tracking down the right parking lot to [...]

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The San Francisco way to build community

January 27, 2006

One of the things you don’t want to do when you’re trying to start a community is create a barrier to entry for potential members. The key to the survival of a community is a rich and diverse membership. One example of this is the San Francisco Motorcycle Club which has evolved and morphed through [...]

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Thanks be to the Gods of the Internet!

March 21, 2003

Thanks be to the Gods of the Internet! After trawling various chat rooms a kind soul named Lydia offered to tape us the final episodes for us so we can save ourselves the embarassment of admitting to Motoko that we can’t operate a VCR. Since submitting my email address to these X-File chatrooms, my spam [...]

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