[MD] facebook

[Ian Glendinning]

Hi gav,

Combining your posted thoughts on social linking networks,
free-markets and the fun of falling numbers, I blogged a post.
http://www.psybertron.org/?p=1808
(Hopefully makes sense here, from the third para on ....)
Ian

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:37 AM, gav <gav_gc at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> hiya all,
> been thinking about what's going on and the likelihood of something new evolving to replace the old system....
> in all likelihood the meltdown will bottom out at some stage and then we will have an even more imbalanced scenario: wealth concentrated in even fewer hands than before....cos who else is buying these panic sold shares, other than the very rich?
> anyway whatever particular shape the crisis takes next we have some new tools at our disposal that we can use to organise/communicate independent of the current kafka-esque system.
> facebook is interesting. yes there is a lot of twaddle on it but at its heart is an emerging web - an ecology of individuals, unmediated by any power structures.
> the degrees of separation twixt folk are diminishing. if you have a thousand friends who all have a thousand friends themselves then you are one degree of separation away from hundreds of thousands of people (allowing for friend overlap).
> whether it is facebook or some other networking tool the upshot is an efficient means of coordinating people, on relatively large levels....ie perticipative democracy becomes feasible.
> anyway just dreamin
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