What happened to the podcasting list and that community is happening here and for
virtually the same reasons.
Sad, yet helpful in the long run, I suppose.
ER
http://ericrice.com
--- In [email protected], "tuplez2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> so, if a few new people jump in and start posting this group will be larger than 150.
> Soon, new subgroups of vloggers will start forming. It's great to watch. there will
> probably be the religious vbloggers, the artistic vbloggers, the diaristic vbloggers, the
> mobile phone vbloggers, the commercial vloggers, the social cause vbloggers, current
> event vbloggers and so on...can't wait, this space is so wide open, so I'm jumping in
> hoping to hasten this transition on.
>
> -Greg Worley
>
> www.worleyworks.com
>
>
>
> So I've been reading The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell which is a
> fascinating book. I just finished the chapter about groups of 150.
> For those of you who haven't read the book here's a quick summary of
> this idea via, http://tinyurl.com/45rhj
>
> THE MAGIC NUMBER 150
> "There seems to be some limitation built into us either by learning
> or by the design of the nervous systems, a limit that keeps our
> channel capacities in this general range (i.e. the human minds
> inability to comprehend things beyond sets 7)" George Miller "The
> Magical Number Seven"
>
> "The figure of 150 seems to represent the maximum number of
> individuals with whom we can have a genuinely social relationship,
> the kind of relationship that goes with knowing who they are and how
> they relate to us. Putting it another way, it's the number of people
> you would not feel embarrassed about joining uninvited for a drink if
> you happened to bump into them in a bar." Robin Dunbar,
>
> 1. Even relatively small increases in the size of a group [beyond
> 150] creates a significant additional social and intellectual burden.
> 2. The rule of 150 suggests that the size of a group is another
> one of those subtle contextual factors that can make a big difference.
> 3. Peer pressure is much more powerful than a concept of a boss
> 4. Transactive memory: we store information with other people.
> Since mental energy is limited, we concentrate on what we do best.
> 5. Groups of 150 are an organized mechanism that makes it far
> easier for new ideas and information moving around the organization
> to tip; to go from one person or one part of the group to the entire
> group all at once.
>
> So this got me thinking about how, it seems to me, the tone and
> demeanor of the group has altered in the last couple of weeks. Now I
> know this group is larger than 1000 people but most don't post at
> all. To me the group feels like a group of the people who post
> regularly. So I went back and counted how many people posted at
> least twice in the last month. My quick count - 145! Could it be
> that this group is reacting not to any individual or small group of
> posters but rather have we begun to reach "the maximum number of
> individuals with whom we can have a genuinely social relationship?"
>
> Verdi
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