Comments on: my etech talk: revenge of the user

By: Why SMBs Need Social Software – Dunbar’s Number Limits Metcalfe’s Law « I’m Not Actually a Geek

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:18:15 +0000

[...] colleagues are working on, and interact relatively easily. Is this up to 150 employees? Maybe. As Danah Boyd noted about Dunbar’s Number: He found that the MAXIMUM number of people that a person could keep up with socially at any given [...]

By: d2r

d2r — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 04:00:24 +0000

today’s (re-)readings

Some articles I’ve been re-reading, in no particular order:Macintosh Production Introduction Plan, part of Stanford’s Making the Macintosh: Technology and Culture in Silicon ValleyThe Anti-Mac Interface and Towards the Anti-MacApophenia: Revenge of the…

By: Life With Alacrity

Life With Alacrity — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:35:23 +0000

The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

Lately I’ve been noticing the spread of a meme regarding “Dunbar’s Number” of 150 that I believe is misunderstanding of his ideas. (post continues with a discussion of Dunbar’s Number, the size of groups, some empirical and anecdotal experience with si…

By: peterme.com

peterme.com — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 23:09:22 +0000

Taking a longer view…

I briefly attended a user-centered design seminar thingy yesterday, and one of the things that came up was the increasing acceptance of the importance of ethnography in design research. More and more companies are “getting” that they’ve got to observe…

By: popup blockers

popup blockers — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:15:05 +0000

Took the day off and was just reading up some blogs and thought I would post here

By: Unintended Consequences

Unintended Consequences — Wed, 26 May 2004 06:09:24 +0000

Configuring the User in Social Network Software

Social networks, “Small Worlds,” code as law, and the “YASNS phenomenon” form the threads of Danah Boyd’s notes from her recent E-Tech presentation, “Revenge of the User” at the February 2004 O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Comments on Milgram…

By: Life With Alacrity

Life With Alacrity — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:20:03 +0000

The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes

By: Blacky McBlackerson

Blacky McBlackerson — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 11:01:36 +0000

cuz the kkk is here to stay…

By: Blacky McBlackerson

Blacky McBlackerson — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 11:01:33 +0000

cuz the kkk is here to stay…

By: Blacky McBlackerson

Blacky McBlackerson — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 11:01:09 +0000

cuz the kkk is here to stay…