jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
interesting thread, have to think about what they say in light of what I know about ‘scale free networks’ and what I have observed of similar arrangements (like ‘newsgroups’ in the pre-IP days of uucp and phone-line-based networking/sharing).
IMHO recommendation norms & systems, deliberately wrought or informally formed, are key to understanding these webs of sociability.