[Sigia-l] Re: Is Ziya on vacation?
Jonathan Baker-Bates
Jonathan.Baker-Bates at Wheel.co.uk
Tue May 23 09:38:15 EDT 2006
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Eric Scheid
> Sent: 23 May 2006 12:48
> To: sigia l
> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Re: Is Ziya on vacation?
>
> On 23/5/06 1:39 PM, "Listera" <listera at rcn.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, you had it all to yourself to do just that and start your own
> > threads, for "noise free" and "true IA" discussions. How did it go?
> > :-)
>
> Heh. I've seen the same effect on many lists over the last
> decade ... one person dominates discussion, and when they go
> absent the list doesn't recover very well. It's not a good
> thing, and in an "ideal" world, yes, people would rush in to
> start their own threads.
>
Time for us all to (re?) read Clay Shirky's "A Group Is Its Own Worst
Enemy," I think.
"So there's this question "What is required to make a large, long-lived
online group successful?" and I think I can now answer with some
confidence: "It depends." I'm hoping to flesh that answer out a little
bit in the next ten years."
http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
Jonathan
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