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Self-Organization and Identification of Web Communities

I'm preaching the gospel of emergence in a lot of knowledge management projects I'm involved with. I'm constantly running into people's inclination to create more portals or to choose definitive experts in a subject, which I feel displays a lack of vision. Here is a great example: In Self-Organization and Identification of Web Communities, NEC scientists demonstrate how you can identify communities of practice and knowledge through the self organizing properties of the web. Posted: 3/21/02; 10:57:19 AM #

The Myth of Interactivity on the Internet
	In The Myth of Interactivity on the Internet, Gerry McGovern takes a hard look at, among other critiques, how we have devalued the concept of community by assuming that all we need is a bulletin board and we have instant community. Posted: 3/21/02; 10:56:58 AM #