Communities, Audiences and Scale. Clay Shirky was the moderator at this year's PC Forum, and his article titled Communities, Audiences and Scale provides a very interesting argument about the sustainability of communities. [tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]
Rick has some interesting observations on this, and if I weren't so busy I'd crank out a more extended commentary. The question is: will something like the Radio community we have here scale? To the naysayers I would say that you can't predict what will happen here based on previous models (because there are no previous models). Radio is a mult-dimensional thing, and people outside the Radio world (like my friends who come here to see my 'blog site) don't get to see below the surface, where things like the News Aggregator, Referers, and Page Rankings work. I think the community can scale, or maybe scaling means the community becomes segmented in some way....who knows? Let's just keep trying it and see what happens....
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