My TED talk on movements is up. I argue that internet's ease of organizing can paradoxically weaken movements. http://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_how_the_internet_has_made_social_change_easy_to_organize_hard_to_win …
@mathewi This, of course, feeds with the historical trend that people don't want to deal with collective decision-making and all its thorns.
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@zeynep: There's a very clear similarity to much of what goes on with open source and the challenges of those communities -
@mathewi It is. Leaders can't be coopted or killed (good) but tactical shifts are harder and collective identity (sometimes) more fleeting. - Show replies
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