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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > Make the switch to the world's best email. Get Yahoo!7 Mail! > http://au.yahoo.com/y7mail > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
