It may be the Berkeley Relic speaking in me, but I have often found "ettiquette" to be the next door neighbor of fascism.
Do you all remember the "Sandwich Nazi" of Seinfeld? N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > [Original Message] > From: glen e. p. ropella <g...@agent-based-modeling.com> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> > Date: 9/4/2009 9:06:50 AM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Psychology Blogs > > Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 09/03/2009 03:35 PM: > > I remember *several* folks at the complex begging for chats on "how to > > use the web" so to speak. We never got around to it, but boy would it > > be useful. Don had a few "barn raising" sessions: come with your laptop > > and we'll show you how to use the wiki or how to use forums. Maybe we > > ought to go back to that? > > The trouble with this sort of thing is that (I posit) that the internet > has been successful because of the low-overhead (read "I can use it > however I want because it's simple and composable") protocols. Adding > layers of abstraction like "etiquette" and how to (properly) use it are > quickly rendered obsolete. > > A better set of howtos would target _very_ specific and concrete > actions... like, how to find out who added that clearly biased clause to > the Wikipedia entry on Haskell. [grin] Or, how to cross-correlate > forums to find out whether a blogger is using another identity to > comment on his own blog entries. > > -- > glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
