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the book
Here Comes Everybody
The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
if you're developing social software of any kind,
this book should be required reading.
1. It takes a Village
to Find a Phone
humans are
social creatures
accompanied by
high individual intelligence
tasks bigger than
individual's capabilities
new tools
for group creation
enablers, built on an
architecture of participation
By making it easier for groups to self-assemble
and for individuals to contribute to group effort
without requiring formal management,
these tools have radically altered the old limits
on the size, sophistication and scope of unsupervised effort
(the limits that created the institutional dilemma in the first place)
2. Sharing Anchors Community
adding more people to a late project
tends to make it later
aggregations of anything exhibit complex behaviours
that cannot be predicted by observing the component parts
if markets are such a good idea,
why do we have organizations?
while each person can agree that
all would benefit from common restrain,
the incentives of the individuals
are arrayed against that outcome
may be
technological/accidental
a capability moves from
a group of professionals
to become embeded within societey
from
institutional prerrogative
part of a
communications ecosystem
5. Personal Motivation meets
Collaborative Production
a chaotic process,
with unpredictable and wildly uneven contributions,
made by nonexpert contributosr acting out of
variable motivations,
is creating a global resource of tremendous daily value
The Ise Shrine is rebuild every 20 years
6. Collective Action and
Institutional Challenges
small economic hurdles
were not there anymore
revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new technologies,
it happens when it adopts new behaviours
faster is also different
collective action
is different from
individual action
everybody knows that
everybody knows that
everybody knows
from attention-getting fun to
political tool
ability of weak groups
to coordinate
against strong ones
from the "former audience"
to he "former consumer"
the people who were on fire wondered
why the general population didn't care more,
and the general population wondered
why those obsesed people didn't just shut up.
highly motivated people can now
make barely motivated people effective
any tool that improves shared awareness or group coordination
can be pressed into service for political means,
because the freedom to act in groups is inherently political