Clay Shirky has posted his seminal keynote at the O’Reilly Emerging Tech conference:

I want to talk a pattern I’ve seen over and over again in social software that supports large and long-lived groups. And that pattern is the pattern described in the title of this talk: “A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy.”

So I just posted my comments from the same conference which were in some ways a response to Clay’s presentation:

I want to suggest there’s a reason why we keep making the mistake that Clay specifically points to: the failure to adopt a group “constitution.” It’s not because we don’t learn. It’s because of the importance – in even the most vocal groups – of the unspoken.

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