Designing Social Software

Clay Shirky’s essay A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy is a couple of years old but I found it personally resonant right now.

“And, finally, you have to find a way to spare the group from scale. Scale alone kills conversations, because conversations require dense two-way conversations. … Live Journal does the best soft forking of any software I’ve ever seen, where the concepts of ‘you’ and ‘your group’ are pretty much intertwingled.”

intertwingled!

Alan in Proven By Science • 875 views