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RE: A bunch of components, but no mandated organization - reas

• To: 'Chiusano Joseph' <chiusano_joseph@b...>, Nathan Young <natyoung@c...>, "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>, XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: A bunch of components, but no mandated organization - reasonable?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:03:37 -0600

See
http://www.ciadvertising.org/SA/summer_02/chjin/Net_ad/Homophily%20Theory.ht
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If a schema is a phenotype, and the relationships it captures are genotypes,

then no, a phenotype is not required but one will emerge as the rate of 
communication is sustained.  This is the network effect of trading.   No 
rules are needed but rules will emerge.  Positive feedback will create 
new relationships and negative feedback will return the network to a 
stable state.  In many companies, verticalization is used to enable 
transparency of the economic structure, but given propinquity, social 
networks takeover the intervertical communications.  Since social networks 
tend toward homophily, communications within the social network are 
efficient but diversity is repressed.   Companies that fall into this 
trap typically quit innovating.

This concept of ecological sustainability underlies many other theories 
of community building, economic trading, identity building, and so on. 
In effect, networking is the common pattern of life (See Fritjof Capra).

len

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