On Here Comes Everyone

I'll have to say that this was probably my favorite "reading" yet. Instead of doing an overview like I usually do I'm going to post the notes I took on the video. Maybe they will be helpful to my fellow classmates.

Reading: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Audience: General

-Effects of Internet becoming broadly social=> General Awareness-
-"Internet not a decoration on contemporary society, it's a challenge to it."-

I think this is a very good quote. It makes so much sense given the implications of the Internet in every aspect of society. I love it!

-We're living through the largest increase in human expressive capability in history-

*4 Revelations
1.Printing Press and Movable Type
2.Telephone/Telegraph
3.Recorded media, movies etc...
4.Harness Broadcast

Notice: The one's that create groups don't create 2-way communications and the ones that creat 2-way communications don't create groups.
*Peacock hitting windscreen

~GROUP ACTION JUST GOT EASIER!!!~
-Freedom of Speech, Press and Assembly now all the same freedom

-Humans natively good at group action
-*Complication of group formation=>
5 people=10 connections
10 people=45 connections
~"Adding more engineers to a late Project makes it later"~
*Diminsihing utility
-Native disabilities of groups past a certain size
*Hierarchy
-Set of tools=>Make each link easier to produce=>Larger, easier groups
~Ridiculously easy group forming~
*Email as afterthought on original Internet
*Reply-all Significance(Upsides and Downsides)

B/w 1974 and Now...
-Enormous social lag=>Social Capability has NOT transformed society...vs other types of apps b/c groups natively conservative

~"Curiously the moment at which technology becomes boring that the social effects become interesting."

"Once technology sinks deep into the culture the social effects that get built on it simultaneously REQUIRE the technology and ARENT ABOUT (IT) the technology."

*Internal combustion (Engine) moment with Internet
*About none of it and all of it at the same time

Ladder: Ways in Which Group Effect more than just aggregated individual action
1.Sharing
2.Conversation
3.Collaboration
4.Collective Action

~How much does the individual have to work to coordinate their actions with the group~

1.Sharing
*Delicious=>Lowered difficulty of sharing=>social effects afterthought
-"Me-first" utility
-Reverses old order of sharing
Congregate->Share
Tagging systems:Share->Congregate

Sharing as a platform invisibly changing media...

2.Conversation
*Community of practice and Hi-dynamic range photography
Media Sharing=>Platform=>Group gets better TOGETHER

~"Sharing + Conversation leaves residue of instruction"~
*Bronze Beta & Buffy the Vampire Slayer=>features as distractions

3.Collaboration
*Anime and Market failure

4.Collective Action
-Rarest pattern...FUTURE
*Airlines & Planes stuck on Tarmac
-Flier Bill of Rights & Kate Hanni

~"Thinking is for Doing"~
-William James
~PUBLISHING IS FOR ACTING~
=>One click away...change