Fitting Our Tools to a Small World

1. Social Capital

1.1. Bonding capital

1.1.1. Howard Dean campaign

1.1.1.1. "charmed inner circle"

1.2. Bridging capital

1.2.1. Structural holes

1.2.1.1. Mix people up!

2. FOAF Networking

2.1. dodgeball

2.1.1. Brokers introductions by:

2.1.1.1. Analyzing potential for friendship

2.1.1.2. Analyzing geographic location

3. Small World Networks

3.1. Homophily

3.1.1. Social networking

3.1.1.1. Meetup

3.1.1.2. Dogster

3.1.1.3. Weblogs

3.2. Connectivity

3.2.1. Power law distribution

3.2.1.1. Connectors

3.2.1.1.1. The bigger the group, the more important the connector's role in the group.

3.2.2. Small groups are densely connected.

3.2.3. Large groups are sparsely connected.

3.3. Resistance to random damage

3.4. Amplifiers/Filters

4. IRC Channels

4.1. Joi Ito

4.1.1. #joiito

4.1.1.1. jibot

4.1.1.1.1. Social stability

4.2. #winprog

4.2.1. Source of information