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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Ben Barry
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Kinship is so central to small-scale societies that it might legitimately be regarded as one of the main organising principles of the human social world.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Clay Shirky • 31 highlights
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Essentially, as we increase group sizes beyond 80, to 150, 200, or even 350-500, we typically do so by breaking larger groups down into smaller ones, and continually reducing community sizes down to the point where they can be understood and managed by people -- and so efficiency reasserts itself.
Christopher Allen • The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
Many people have long wondered why the Grateful Dead succeeded in creating a world of Deadheads. It turns out that’s because the people who allocated tickets understood familiar strangers. If you bought a ticket for a Grateful Dead show in Miami, they kept a record of who you were seated near. Then, if you bought a ticket for the Nashville show, th... See more
danah boyd • Knitting a Healthy Social Fabric.
While Path did indeed fail as a distribution provider, I would argue that keeping the network’s size small can still have benefits in line with my signaling theory: Deliberately limiting the number of people who can join a network (e.g. by charging a membership fee) creates scarcity which in turns makes the network more interesting. Network members... See more