A group is its own worst enemy

Reading Clay Shirky's article titled A Group is its Own Worst Enemy got a lot of mental threads running. This is an excellent look at Group Software and Behavioral Patterns that emerge from its usage. It's a long read, but worth it, especially if you're developing FlashComm applications...

[quote] We've had things like mailing lists and BBSes for a long time, and more recently we've had IM, we've had these various patterns. And now, all of a sudden, these things are popping up. We've gotten weblogs and wikis, and I think, even more importantly, we're getting platform stuff. We're getting RSS. We're getting shared Flash objects. We're getting ways to quickly build on top of some infrastructure we can take for granted, that lets us try new things very rapidly. [/quote]

[via Joel on Software]

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