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Familiar Strangers - Another Milgram Idea Reminds me mostly of people I passed daily on the way to classes in College. Later it's people in office elevators. Still not connected by commonalities - just proximities. Commonalities are possible, just unknown. Liz: familiar stranger. Liz Lawley: The Familiar Stranger is a social phenomenon first addressed by the psychologist Stanley Milgram in his 1972 essay on the subject. Familiar Strangers are individuals that we regularly observe but do not interact with. By definition a Familiar Stranger (1) must be observed, (2) repeatedly, and (3) without any interaction. [...] In presentations at conferences (and to students) lately, I've been talking about the importance of technologies like zero-conf networking, particularly as evidenced in OS X Rendezvous-enabled tools like iChat, iTunes, and SubEthaEdit (formerly Hydra). [...] When I open iTunes these days, I often see shared music libraries from people I don't know;mostly students, some colleagues from other departments. The same people often show up in my Rendezvous iChat window. I don't know them, I don't interact with them, but I see them regularly, recognize their virtual presence. Virtual shared public spaces need to get fairly large for this to happen, but it is happening. As fewer people travel by public transport or congregate in public spaces, these can perhaps re-kindle a sense of others around. [Epeus' epigone] 
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A third morality?. crw from #joiito pointed me to Chris Phoenix's extension to three of Jane Jacob's two moralities: According to Jane Jacobs, the Commercial and Guardian systems each have developed a distinct and identifiable set of ethics. You will be able to identify these ethics in governments, police departments, and a variety of commercial organizations. The Information ethics, and this table, are a synthesis of the work of several authors. If you are not familiar with any organizations that operate by creating information and then giving it away, think of your friends who are avid hobbyists - chances are that they have written articles or put up web sites without being paid.
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Geographic Network Effects. Sunday's Washington Post has a fascinating story about the battle between brain-drain and brain-gain cities [via Interesting People]. In essence, smart entrepreneurial people like to hang out with other smart entrepreneurial people. And whereas Cleveland was the center of cutting edge technology at the turn of the 20th century, these days it's Seattle, Austin and Silicon Valley. While the article never uses the words "network effect," it clearly describes an increasing return to the value of moving to where the other smart people are. And given that this movement results not from business capital efficiency (which has typically driven such geographic shifts) but instead from individual quality of life decisions, the trend is uncharacteristic of recent times: The winner-take-all pattern of the past decade differs substantially from the Rust Belt decline and Sun Belt growth of the 1970s and '80s. Then, manufacturing companies moved south in search of a low-wage, nonunion workforce. Now, talented individuals are voting with their feet to live in cities where the work is smart, the culture is cool and the environment is clean. One of the more enjoyable fads to watch in the 90's was every city's desire to create a silicon-based moniker... Silicon Alley and Silicon Hills were probably the two best remembered (New York and Austin, respectively) but every city from Baltimore to Bombay came up with something. As has become tremendously evident to those cities, you can't just build a Silicon Valley overnight. Besides building the culture of entrepreneurialism (i.e., failure-friendly), it's about creating a steady flow of new talent and youth as well as a mix of new cultures and ideas. It's never been a secret that major hotbeds of entrepreneurial activity are centered around major universities. But now it is clear that cities can establish "lock-in" as long as they continue to let that culture grow. [VentureBlog]
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Caught this blog entry on LinkedIn! Still growing! ================================= 200 Of Reid Hoffman's Closest Friends. Tonight was yet another sold out social networking event -- it was IBD Network's Under The Radar. The CEOs of LinkedIn, Spoke, ZeroDegrees and VisiblePath all presented their businesses. Esther Dyson of Release 1.0, Pradeep Tagare from Intel Capital and I were on a panel to discuss their respective business models. Based upon what I heard this evening, here is how I would sum up the different companies' business models. LinkedIn -- subscription (eventually) service to input and manage one's own contacts to search for connections. If you're thinking that they all sound pretty similar, I'm with you. These companies have way more in common than not. After the companies presented, the panel and audience voted on what they believed was the most interesting business. The audience preferred the model described by Ben Smith of Spoke, while the panel collectively preferred the business described by Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn. Interestingly, both Spoke and LinkedIn announced at the event that they had recently come to terms on financings -- Spoke wouldn't yet say from whom they were raising money, LinkedIn announced that it will be funded by Sequoia -- whereas ZeroDegrees and VisiblePath remain angel funded. One thing that did surprise me tonight was the percentage of the audience who were users of LinkedIn. By show of hands, the LinkedIn members outnumbered the Friendster members by over 2 to 1. It looked like two-thirds or more of the audience had signed up to LinkedIn. Those are pretty surprising numbers. Of course I don't think there is another audience in the country that could replicate those statistics, but it tells you that the Bay Area entrepreneur community has bought into social networking on some level (either that or Reid had packed the audience with a couple hundred of his closest friends). It will be interesting to see how that scales beyond the Bay Area.
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Boy - I need to reconnect with you at some point - I know we only met for a few minutes at BloggerCon, but the more I read the more I'm happy we actually met - and at some point I'll send you the photos I took of you (God its been months! - Can't seem to overcome the technical difficulty that the filenames are all a string of digits - so to scroll through and find the right photos is a pain....) There must be a solution! Thanks again, Carve Out A LifeAn unusual residual from reading this book about re-imagining business has struck me ... that is, re-imagining a life. Carving out a life that fits you. A life that fits you exactly. A life tailored to you -- as if -- it were your life. I worry we are all living a life someone else thinks we should be living.Take an inventory of all the things you have going on in your life. Decide which really matter and which really don't. It can be a little shocking. Like cleaning out closets, when you are done, you wonder, why was I keeping all that crap around here anyway? I've had the added pleasure of helping clean out old clothes and stuff of my parents after they were gone and it makes it painfully clear how much stuff just doesn't matter. Are we lost in a swamp of stuff and a swirl of little pieces of paper and a wind that blows us here and there and everywhere for no good reason? There's just no doubt that we're all dying. And still, every day we put off real and authentic relationships with living human beings and choose other silly busy work, to get through our days instead. Perhaps its just too frightening to look others straight in the eye. Maybe we will find that truth I mentioned, right there in their deep regard, that we are all dying. The only people left who seem to know how to enjoy the liveliness of a day are children. When I'm with my son, there is no shying away from rolling down a green summer grassy hill, or throwing yourself into a cold lake, or letting ice cream melt and drip all over your face. They do not hold back. We still think someone's watching. We think someone's deciding if we're pretty or handsome enough. We think someone's deciding if our car is cool enough. We think someone's deciding whether or not to be our friend based on whether our house, apartment, mansion, or hut is good enough. No one is watching. They are too busy dying. [Halley's Comment]
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Brilliant comment - and possible path towards a solution to the public private problem of blogs. ------------------------------------------------------ For Your Eyes OnlyWow, Betsy Devine points today to Danny O'Brien's right-on notion that in fact blogs can carry on a very private conversation.I haven't heard anyone express it quite that way, but he's right. I can say things here that are completely private and would have meaning only to one particular person when they read them. The rest of you can stand there and go, "Hmmmm .... what's she up to?" but I can be very private in public ... or is it very publically private? With songs for instance, I almost never post song lyrics without them actually being a message to a specific person. They are never casual. They are aimed right at some one person. With a poem, there is nothing random about who I'm writing to. They know. Others probably don't, but I don't care. With a story, there may be a general audience, but still there will be private jokes embedded that are meant for some particular person. Is this a medium of public privacy? [Halley's Comment]
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Hi Halley, Just thought I'd point out that you are a mother...;-) Sorry you removed the comments from your page - so I'll comment on my page. You are the kind of mother that ispired the MILF page - but probably far from the mothers that populate the video clips. Keep on steath discoing...
Leading MILF Economic Indicators. Leading MILF Economic IndicatorsNice to know you're in the hottest new demographic. All you business majors and MBA's won't want to miss this post by Baccus about where money in the new economy is really being made. The darnest thing is a nice gentleman once tried to make me believe the "M" in MILF stood for Mature Women. Funny I don't remember Maturewomen being one word. He was adamant. He could not admit that the "M" stood for Mom. Funny, it must have been an edible, I mean, Oedipal thing. [Halley's Comment]
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Don't have a cow--you can have Heifer.org!. This season's first holiday miracle just happened--my catalog from Heifer International (online at www.heifer.org.) The miracle is that I am thrilled to see it. I remember how pleased my mom was when she discovered this way to give her present-showered grandkids the gift of helping poor families. She didn't have to hit malls, wrap packages, or spend a lot to give an unforgettably special present. My kids were old enough to be thrilled by the idea. OK, I admit it, I'm also smiling at this photo of a little boy holding a baby duck in his hands (it's bigger in my catalog). Go check them out--and you'll be smiling too.
[Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar?]
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