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• sproose a goose ?
  the problem is using social network-ing models embeds a normative bell curve of behaviour on "likely" post responses with the most popular responding toe the bell peak. thios may not reflect "real' world democratic perceptions except where writ large aka "wiki" entries once they receive a "sufficien" critical mass. The internet can be notoriously used to distort perceptions and to penalise non-conformist views (remember spamming, or the ability to post multiple votes) hence the search engines may not reflect truth. besides distortion is so easy , with some software one can analyse speech patterns and mimic any individuals' speech style (even mails or blogs) such that it can be hard for others to differentiate only 15% or so of the world's population is fully connected, the burden of health disease in Africa is about AIDS and starvation and netblogging ain't on the radar: because China and India will have the internet population numbers within a few decades or less, does that mean those will be the prevailing views. the "market" place has and always will be a place of gossip, so as always caveat emptor. a classic present day dilemma is trying to "green" everyone's behaviour: everybody want's to pose as a "green" warrior, but when it comes to modifying behaviour there seems a fair body of evidence that people have deepseated concerns about big changes or changes driven by guilt and are very slow to change. The present "hip " generation gen Y's and X's , have never really been denied or had to share anything : essentially de-consumerist behaviour where people actually have to make painful , compromise choices using fewer resources etc. Car choice behaviour seems well ahead of house size choice: would you carpool or bike pool sooner than share a house with strangers: anyone keen should consider Webers "open society" paradigm rather than just Doug mckenzie Mohr's "Social marketing" model; the social change will affect the model and voter patterns. . it depends whether the Jones's are well informed or stupid, reactionary or adventurous and modest aka( de-consumerist) or plain greedy, don't -give-a-fig: if if spruce is about goosing the sales figures that is what will happen. This is not an attack on anyone just an acknowledgement of the "behavioural difficulties" that gee whiz instant voting style can create In reply to: "Sproose looks to goose the search biz"

  August 28, 2007

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