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What If We Could Weaponize Empathy?

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What If We Could Weaponize Empathy?

One of my favorite insights on the subject of online community is from Tom Chick: Here is something I’ve never articulated because I thought, perhaps naively, it was understood: The priority for participating on this forum is not the quality of the content. I ultimately don’t care how

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Clay Shirky’s classic articles on social software should be required reading for all software developers working on web applications. As near as I can tell, that’s pretty much every developer these days. But I somehow missed Joel Spolsky’s related 2003 article on social software, Building Communities With

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