Clay Shirky on social software

[Tim Regan]

Hi All,

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter "Catlady" wrote:
> Many to Manys before the Internet -- CB 
> radio in the 70s, ham radio for a geeky clique, mimeographed 
> publications CALLED M2Ms (short for Many to Many) and APAs, 
> even the ancient form of the Round Robin manuscript, that is 
> passed from  member to member by hand or post and each person 
> writes on it before passing it to the next. CB was destroyed by 
> problems of scale and the others were too inconvenient to 
> become popular. 


Sorry for ducking out of my own thread - I went for a really 
beautiful camping long-weekend to Orcas Island, one of the San Juan 
Islands in the Puget Sound. I spent most of it sat with my wife in 
the shade of a tree, with my dog asleep at my feet, reading the 
Sandman graphic novels, gazing up over the stunning scenery, as the 
kids played nearby on the beach - it was heaven.

Back to the plot.

Catlady – do you have references to any of these? In particular how 
did M2Ms work – who kept the membership list and how did it scale? 
What are APAs? How ancient is a Round Robin Manuscript, and how is 
membership maintained for them? Again, nobody expects the Spanish 
Inquisition.

Cheers,

Dumbledad.