Jason Scott of Textfiles.com is Boing Boing's guestblogger this week. He's got a nice piece on "The Parties I Missed and the Parties I Didn't." Here's a piece of it:
Having an event be invitation-only and then not getting invited is always a downer. It's probably not you; it's just that invitations depend by nature on the right webs of knowledge and trust, and if you're not in the one that drives the event, then you're not getting in no matter how much you might deserve to. The solution is simple: Build your own massive web of trust, and then wait for the cross-links to make your world a richer place.
Nicely said. Good perspective.
"...invitations depend by nature on the right webs of knowledge aand trust, and if you're not in the one that drives the event, then you're not getting in no matter how much you might deserve to."
Can I ask if you posted this is in reference to misbehaving.net? As in, are you comparing it and similar blogs to invitation-only events? I could be reading into things here, but i am curious to know.
If so, you're right. It does say a lot.
I wonder if the following bit of anthropological or ethnological typology can be tranposed to the case of weblogging:
Wenger, McDermott & Snyder _Cultivating Communities of Practice_ provide examples of strategic intent for communities of practice: helping communities, best-practice communities, knowledge-stewarding communities and innovation communities.