Comments on: Three degrees of influence

By: Analogue Memory, Digital Memory, Community and how they interact.

Analogue Memory, Digital Memory, Community and how they interact. — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:12:51 +0000

[...] Three degrees of Separation (Jan 7th 2009) I talked of how we are increasingly outsourcing our memories to social networks. I [...]

By: homeopet leaks no more

homeopet leaks no more — Mon, 31 May 2010 12:14:02 +0000

There are many implications for that which we will return to in later posts.

By: The Societal Web » Is there an optimal size for Social Networks

The Societal Web » Is there an optimal size for Social Networks — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:06:07 +0000

[...] Personal networks vary from contact lists to lifelong friendships, and both have their place. Dunbar talked of cognitive limit to networks of no more than 150 strong relationships of knowledge. I think the web extends this through extending the range of our influence and the principle of outsourcnig our memories and enabling relationships to be maintained over time and distance without the limitations of remembering conversations and agreements. I discussed that in when I talked about Three Degrees of Influence [...]

By: The Societal Web » Social Media - Disaggregation

The Societal Web » Social Media - Disaggregation — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:08:32 +0000

[...] allowed us to take our relationships on line and extend our reach. The technology allowed us to outsource our memory in the sense that conversations were recorded and could be revisited at any time, reconsidered and [...]

By: The Societal Web » More contacts, same sized core

The Societal Web » More contacts, same sized core — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:07:46 +0000

[...] a previous article ‘Three degrees of influence‘ I discussed the outsurcing of our memories to social networks and the resultant ability to [...]

By: William Buist

William Buist — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:53:30 +0000

Interestingly, in this weeks New Scientist there is an article that challenges whether sadness is an essential Human emotion, that has some bearing on sadness passed around networks as discussed in this post. I'll study the background an post some more on that.