Hi Pedro,<br><br>I follow Zeynep closely and we've covered this particular entry in our blog as well,<br><br>these are if you will, the two sides of the same coin, and do not necesseraly contradict each other,<br><br>Michael points out the real changes that took place through the use of these media, and their further potential, while Zeynep points to the dangers that do not just come from outside, but from within the peer to peer dynamic itself<br>
<br>from the blog,<br><br><a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/preferential-attachment-in-p2p-networks-is-that-really-the-issue/2011/02/21">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/preferential-attachment-in-p2p-networks-is-that-really-the-issue/2011/02/21</a><br>
<br>but especially this:<br><br><a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/debating-the-iron-law-of-bureaucracy-and-the-power-law-knowing-networks-as-an-alternative-to-scale-free-networks/2011/02/18">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/debating-the-iron-law-of-bureaucracy-and-the-power-law-knowing-networks-as-an-alternative-to-scale-free-networks/2011/02/18</a><br>
<br>Paul Hartzog also had a comment on this,<br><br>Michel<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Pedro Gioya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pg@institutodeliderazgo.com">pg@institutodeliderazgo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Look at this post on the same issue but with
different perspective (Sure you know, but anyway....)</font></div>
<div><a href="http://technosociology.org/?p=366" target="_blank">http://technosociology.org/?p=366</a></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Pedro</font></div></div>
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Bauwens</a> </div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>To:</b> <a title="gurstein@gmail.com" href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">Michael Gurstein</a> </div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Cc:</b> <a title="p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org" href="mailto:p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org" target="_blank">p2p-foundation</a> ; <a title="dougald@schoolofeverything.com" href="mailto:dougald@schoolofeverything.com" target="_blank">Dougald Hine</a> </div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 28, 2011 6:52
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<div style="font: 10pt arial;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [P2P-F] FW: Blogpost:
Applying the ICT Lessons of Revolt to the Institutional Challenges of
Reconstruction: They overthrew Hosni Mubarek, Now Can They Overthrow Robert
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<div><br></div>This is really brilliant Michael and I warmly recommend it to
our listmembers,<br><br>Michel<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Michael Gurstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">gurstein@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Michel,<br><br>I think this is one that you will find
interesting...<br><br>M<br><br>---------------------------------------------<br><a href="http://wp.me/pJQl5-5Z" target="_blank">http://wp.me/pJQl5-5Z</a><br><br>"In this, I think that the
revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia have access to<br>skills and resources
which were unavailable to earlier movements that is-the<br>Internet, social
networking, mobile telephony and perhaps most important,<br>the experience
and knowledge of how to use these in support of collective<br>social
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