Email from Ben: Interesting article on net communities scaling and bad behaviour
Email from Ben who is speaking at a social media event SXSW Interactive currently being held in Austin Texas
On 14 Mar 2009, at 18:23, Ben Metcalfe wrote:
This link is being referenced a lot here at SxSW, and I thought a lot of the observations were similar to your experiences with the HepC forum.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/12/33338/3000
Great to see you twittering, by the way!
Lots of love,
B
Hiya Ben
This article don’t say much – and takes a wordy length of time to do it – in a pseudo academic sort of way. He’s right about Shirky. Complete ass and self promoted expert. His inept grasp of Bion’s unconscious behaviours in groups made me laugh. And the man is paid to pontificate about it all.
I can see my approach is completely on the wrong track.
Reminder to self:
use more words to say it
quote as many other sites on the net as possible
inform everyone what an expert I really am
Thanks for the heads-up on the article. Will probably blog on it when I digest all the long words and big sentences. You’re right – it does remind me alot about my experiences with The Hepatitis C Forum.
I keep twittering and avoiding asking myself “why?” but inevitably it will occur to me to do so.
Lots of love
d
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