Publics
Flow
Phatic
Tummeling
Out-groups
Faces
Following
Small World
Networks
Minimal group paradigm
Democratization
Stimulation
Homophily
Power
Mutual Media
Csikszentmihalyi
danah boyd
Kevin Marks
The idea is that you're living inside the stream: adding to it, consuming it, redirecting it. The stream metaphor is about reaching flow.
Parasocial
Semi-overlapping
[teens'] idea of public is not about all people across all space and all time. They want publics of peers, not publics where creeps and parents lurk.
danah boyd
I would guess that the typical profile of a ‘follower’ is someone who is young and who feels marginalised, empty and pointless. They don’t have an inner life. 

 http://bit.ly/james_twitter
Oliver James, The Times
if you’re on MySpace now, you’re a [expletive] cretin. And you’re not only a [expletive] cretin, but you’re poor. Nobody who has beyond an 8th grade level of education is on MySpace. It is for backwards people.
 
http://bit.ly/wolff_myspace
Michael Wolff, Business Week
Google Talk will also be integrated with the pages themselves making it super-easy for Orkut's Brazilian drug dealers to text message and voice chat with each other.
 
http://bit.ly/mash_orkut
Pete Cashmore, Mashable
friendfeed.com
friendlierfeed.appspot.com
http://tummelvision.tv
conversational catalyst
geisha
animateur
Community Organizer
Chief Conversation Officer
http://bit.ly/tummler
Etiquette
Social Contract
Social discomfort
local
shifting rules
Deb Schultz
Heather Gold
@kevinmarks
@debs
@heathr
tummelvision.tv
emerging
evolving
contested
shifting behaviours
unspoken
empathy
present
shared sense
emotional
grooming
responsive
Should you hire a Chief Conversation Officer?
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