Comments on: It Takes a Village

By: ed hardy plus

ed hardy plus — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:53:30 +0000

Everything will be all right,I am behind you.

By: Nicholas Butler

Nicholas Butler — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:16:34 +0000

Hey there Chris I remembered your post here and thought I would bring to your attention a example of people building social communities online through just those things you discussed.

http://www.crawleyonline.org/portal.php

Its managed by John Bowers ( A Facebook friend of mine ) who has been building a local social community over time.

By: Nicholas Butler

Nicholas Butler — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:16:00 +0000

Hey there Chris I remembered your post here and thought I would bring to your attention a example of people building social communities online through just those things you discussed.

http://www.crawleyonline.org/portal.php

Its managed by John Bowers ( A Facebook friend of mine ) who has been building a local social community over time.

By: Matthew Cornell

Matthew Cornell — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:15:05 +0000

This is an insight that’s been brewing in my mind for a while. Not just “it takes a village,” but “I *have* a village!” With it comes (paraphrasing Spidey’s uncle) great responsibility.

By: Matthew Cornell

Matthew Cornell — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:15:00 +0000

This is an insight that’s been brewing in my mind for a while. Not just “it takes a village,” but “I *have* a village!” With it comes (paraphrasing Spidey’s uncle) great responsibility.

By: marshal sandler

marshal sandler — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:42:55 +0000

Social Media gives us all a chance to collect our thought’s and
grow from the dialogue of others, since we don’t see things as they are we see things- as we are ! It is nice live in a villlage with kind people, expressing kind thoughts ! I agree with Rebecca the real world can create loose associations !

By: marshal sandler

marshal sandler — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:42:00 +0000

By: Rebecca Rachmany

Rebecca Rachmany — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:18:50 +0000

Although it seems rather similar, needing your “friends” on facebook because they might know a database programmer is rather different from knowing your neighbor because you need to borrow a cup of milk. People have always had a large range of loose associations. Social media certainly makes it easy to keep track of them (You never have to try and recall where you know someone from or what they do for a living). Still, it is of a very different nature from loose associations in the real world.

By: Rebecca Rachmany

Rebecca Rachmany — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:18:00 +0000

By: Steven Hodson

Steven Hodson — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:26:43 +0000

besides the fact that when I first saw the title of the post I had visions of Hillary on a pulpit I do have to say that after reading the post over a few times I do agree with the “social” as a software idiom rather than as a communication one; which raises an interesting question – are developers of this type of software; whether it is on the web or stand-alone facing the web being sociall responsible when they release products that are so easily hacked into or gamed?

As for the village concept itself I’m not sure. I some ways this strikes me as more of a game of semantics than anything else. Social Network vs. Village … hmmm .. not sure.