Stuart French has been working away on his model for wiki participation. Matt Hodgson has expanded it with Stuart into this beast:
There's a lot of very interesting stuff in Stuart and Matt's musings. The critical insight that social software participation can be a mix of either/or both/and "bottom up" vs "top down" is a useful one. I have a few quibble but the key comments would be:
- The activity domain seems to be a bit of an after-thought. What are those 5 kinds of behaviour doing compared to the rest.
- As a way of exploring thinking visually, it's intriguing. But it seems to be getting more complicated rather than less. At some point it has to become a simpler or become one of those complicated diagrams that everyone nods at sagely but doesn't really understand.
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