1. Kris on September 6, 2005 9:24 AM writes...

danah - while I didn't think my response to your request on M2M last week (‘apophenia round-up: posts that slipped through’, below) really answered what you were looking for, your essay actually captures the essence of what I was talking about.

Your view (glocalization) is at a much higher, intellectual level than my particular interest area (groups of people that already know each other in the commercial, civic, or social arena but physically meet only occasionally, if at all), but I agree with you 100% - it's not about the technology; it's about the groups of people who use it.

These groups all have the same 6 common attributes:

1. An audience of diverse needs and interests
2. A purpose or mission and a means to assess the achievement of that mission (nobody does this well)
3. Information and content stored in various forms and media
4. An ever growing array of means to communicate that information (this is the focal point of most current discourse regarding current technology trends)
5. Activity, process, tasks,
6. Some organizational or structural context within which the previous 5 attributes can seamlessly operate for the audience of any particular group.

I believe this last attribute is the most critical missing element and wikis are/will be the answer to that. Give people a seamless way to organize themselves and stay in touch in the context of any particular interest or mission and all the other ‘bells and whistles’ will fall into place.

2. Kris on September 7, 2005 11:27 AM writes...

dissapointing that danah's post received only 1 comment here (mine) and 2 on her own site (2 of the 4 comments there ar her responses to the other 2).

It's a great high-level view and poses some relevant concerns. Does no one have any thoughts, comments, proposals, counter points, agreement...anything?

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4. kris on September 8, 2005 7:43 AM writes...

sorry, danah - I tried.

5. x on September 8, 2005 9:28 AM writes...

Glocalisation (with a zed). I read it and thought it was a typo, nasty name :(

6. Michael Chui on September 17, 2005 2:14 AM writes...

Found Many2Many recently and glanced through the latest. The essay was well-written, and opened my eyes to a lot of things. Trouble is, I'd never heard of either term (Web2.0 or glocalization) before, so I'm not really in a position to comment.

Still, very thought-provoking. It'll find a home in my brain for the next few weeks.

7. Michael on September 20, 2005 7:06 AM writes...

I enjoyed reading this link you gave above. Very well written article.

8. Stephen on September 21, 2005 6:08 AM writes...

Glocalization hmmm... I liked this subject and enjoyed reading your blog.