I have plenty of other things to do anyway.
I certainly would not wish to contravene the wisdom generated by social
psychology experiments, and _especially_ not to broach consensus.
Distributed cognition is indeed like a singing dog.
It's very good to meet all the people from xmca.
More please.
Phil
At 12:41 15-11-98 +0100, you wrote:
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>HOLD it a bit!
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>This medium is known to be notoriously lousy for decision making processes,
>while it's great for brainstorming and, also, for coordination once a
>course of action has been decided upon. This commonsensicality originates,
>I believe, in experiments from social psychology and business with groups
>put together for the purpose, having a common task.
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>Which should make one even MORE wary when it comes to a center-less,
>voluntary group like this. So if Phil decides to put Web work into a
>gallery of these new selfdescriptions he should be aware that he does so
>without really knowing a lot about any kind of community consensus. He has
>heard a few enthusiasts, some skeptics, and a lot of silence from the c:a
>300 voices of the community,probably including a lot of silence from most
>of the 40-50 voices of people who have so far volunteered selfdescriptions.
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>I really appreciate the intitiative, but tend to agree with Kim that it's
>enough to have the recent postings archived at
>http://communication.ucsd.edu/MCA/index.html
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>I want to strongly suggest that the efforts should be put into tha making
>of an accessible collection of the home pages/ /websites of members of the
>xmca community. There are already many that I know of, and more and more
>people seem to be getting them.
>
>I'm willing to put some work into this Webbing, but I think I am not the
>only one. I suggest we form some kind of temporary work group, and I also
>suggest we take this discussion backstage -- I'm willing to serve as a
>contact for that to begin with.
>
>Will be back on this -- gotta go
>Eva
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Phil Graham
pw.graham who-is-at student.qut.edu.au
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