{"id":288,"date":"2005-02-05T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-05T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=288"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"linkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/05\/linkage\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In <a href=http:\/\/www.lifewithalacrity.com\/2005\/02\/dunbar_triage_t.html>his latest article<\/a>, Christopher Allen takes on a question that <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/15\/#social_context>I struggled with<\/a> at one point: how do we handle our social networks when they grow too large?  Too large, in this case, is defined with respect to <a href=http:\/\/www.lifewithalacrity.com\/2004\/03\/the_dunbar_numb.html>Dunbar&#8217;s Number<\/a>.  Some interesting thoughts, especially on how we handled the problem in a pre-technology age.  Part of the issue which I don&#8217;t think he addresses is that the current social networking services don&#8217;t have any graceful way for us to rate our strength of relationship.  In real life, I spend more time with my close circle of friends than with certain other acquaintances.  I may like those acquaintances, but I won&#8217;t go out of my way to see them, or I will only interact with them in certain defined contexts such as chorus or ultimate.  With the <a href=http:\/\/www.corante.com\/om\/archives\/031051.html>publicly articulated<\/a> crude tools currently available online, though, I can&#8217;t distinguish between those two &#8220;friend&#8221; relationships without offending the acquaintances.  It&#8217;s a tough question.  Nuance is lost online, especially in the realm of <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/27\/#apophenia>autistic social software<\/a>.\n<li>Speaking of autistic social software, danah boyd just gave a talk at <a href=http:\/\/scpd.stanford.edu\/SCPD\/js\/brandingFrame\/externalURL2.htm>Terry Winograd&#8217;s HCI seminar<\/a> at Stanford.  I really liked that seminar series when I was at Stanford, and attended a bunch of the talks there.  Alas, I could not get down there yesterday to see danah speak, but fortunately the video of the talk is <a href=http:\/\/scpd.stanford.edu\/scpd\/students\/DAM_UI\/pages\/VideoList.asp?CourseInfo=CS547&#038;URL=http:\/\/stanford-online.stanford.edu\/xml\/winter2005\/cs547video.xml>available online<\/a>, so I just watched it.  Nothing too surprising, given that I read her blog and a lot of her informally published work, but it was kind of neat to see her talk.  Now that I know Winograd&#8217;s seminar is online, as well as <a href=http:\/\/shl.stanford.edu\/hum202.html>Rheingold&#8217;s<\/a>, I think I&#8217;ll be wasting time watching those instead of TV.  Or at least I should.\n<li>I still haven&#8217;t read <a href=http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/>Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=ericnehrlisho-20&#038;path=tg%2Fdetail%2F-%2F0316172324%2F>Blink<\/a> (it&#8217;s in the Amazon order that I&#8217;m going to submit soon), but he keeps on popping up in weird places.  Like <a href=http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=merron\/050203>this interview on ESPN.com<\/a>, where he&#8217;s asked to apply his theories of thin-slicing to analyzing the Super Bowl.\n<li>And, as usual, you can see other links that I&#8217;ve found that were worth bookmarking, but not interesting enough to comment on, <a href=http:\/\/del.icio.us\/nehrlich>over on del.icio.us<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest article, Christopher Allen takes on a question that I struggled with at one point: how do we handle our social networks when they grow too large? Too large, in this case, is defined with respect to Dunbar&#8217;s Number. Some interesting thoughts, especially on how we handled the problem in a pre-technology age. 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