The Social Capital of Blogspace - on Ross Mayfield’s Weblog
Posted 10/04/2003 under
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No… I’m not referring to Ross Mayfield’s Weblog as the social capital of the Blogosphere. But Ross has provided an improved picture of ‘The Ecosystem of Networks’ into which he has tied the idea of ‘Social Capital’.
Ross aligns the three modes of weblog use, Publishing, Communication and Collaboration with Sarnoff’s, Metcalfe’s and Reed’s Laws.
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Social Capital of Blogspace
Perhaps we are in the Network Age [Ming], following modernism and post-modernism. After obsessing about construction, then deconstruction, we now value the links between deconstructed bits. When those links are between people, they can be valued as social capital.
Robert Putnam, in Bowling Alone, popularlized the role of social capital. Francis Fukayama, in Trust, principally discusses the correlation between social capital and the prosperity of nations. He defines social capital as the ease in which people in a culture can form new associations.