I've been so incredibly busy with work lately so I've been cutting back on posting "Scouted" stories to the list. (In fact, from here on in, they'll probably just wind up on my blog instead.) But I thought this might be of as much interest to brinellers as it was to me. It's an essay by Clay Shirkey entitled "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy"
http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html)
And in a related issue in today's news from CNN:
> SEX, MOB HITS, 'SIMS ONLINE'
The popular commercial game, where thousands of people interact electronically, is turning into a petri dish of anti-social behavior. And that's raising questions about whether limits on conduct should be set in such emerging virtual worlds, even if they are huge adult playpens.
<<http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/07/05/misbehaving.online.ap/index.html>>
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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