At a recent London CCC meeting
Toby Moores started talking about the idea of a Network of Networks. Lloyd Davis's
London Social Media Cafe is really taking off.
Alex Craxton, who runs
Mobile Mondays, has become a CCC regular, and of course I facilitate
London Wiki Wednesdays. We envisage organizing some joint events and get the 4 or more groups connected. We discussed the power of connecting nodes - with
Metcalfe's law suggesting the value of the network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system, and
Reed's law suggesting that the utility of large networks, particularly social networks, can scale exponentially with the size of the network. I think we agreed with the principles, but we're not really sure that the maths works - but we do know a network of networks has got to be a good thing.
To get things moving, Alex Craxton suggested we should start a wiki to kick around the ideas. Rather than create another site, we can do that here, as WordFrame has wiki capability. You can find it by going to the group wiki area from the link in the horizontal navigation bar above, between uploading documents and create post. We've
created this wiki page to discuss ideas for the meeting, but the platform allows you to create wiki documents in folders, and then the documents themselves can have as many chapters as you need.