[Air-L] the growth of some groups and not others

[Frank Thomas]

Thanks for the interesting link.

- ft


William Dutton wrote:
> I think Murray Turoff is referring to the system that he pioneered, 
> called the Emergency Management Information Systems And Reference 
> Index (EMISARI). See: Hiltz and Turoff, (1978), The Network Nation: 
> Human Communication via Computer (Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley), also 
> see: http://www.livinginternet.com/r/ri_emisari.htm  Murray Turoff and 
> Roxanne Hiltz had a vision that was decades ahead of the times.
>
> Bill
>
> On 31 Dec 2008, at 09:39, Frank Thomas wrote:
>
>> Murray Turoff wrote:
>>> The standard design philosophy currently being used in many social 
>>> network
>>> systems is to encourage the user to sign into the site and duplicate
>>> functions like exchanging messages in different formats.  For many 
>>> users
>>> this is too much a waste of time in that most important things are 
>>> carried
>>> out by the user in their current message environment.  The addition of
>>> groups that social networks finally recognized (they existed in some 
>>> systems
>>> in the 70's)
>> Would you please give more details on this ? Which one,  and how did 
>> they differ from today's ?
>>
>> - ft
>>
>>
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