Cheesy title I know, but I found that this idea recently taught to my by my science fiction professor a nice parallel to social media
Some people do a lot, and it doesn’t really mean anything.
Other people think a lot, but really don’t do anything.
How did I get this from science fiction? The idea I was [...]
When a crisis occurs, or when users are all suffering with a problem, they go online. They need to find out if other people have the same problem, how to fix it, and what caused the problem to begin with. This third point, what caused the problem, helps people to understand: What the issue [...]
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I haven’t read the book Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky yet, but from hearing conversations about it I do know that one of the points in the book is that technology now lets people on demand from ad hoc groups that join together and accomplish specific goals, which after accomplishing the goal [...]
