Situated Software

     Clay Shirky (NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program) just published an essay on situated software, which he defines as software designed in and for a particular social situation or context. "We've been killing conversations about software with 'That won't scale' for so long we've forgotten that scaling problems aren't inherently fatal. The N-squared problem is only a problem if N is large, and in social situations, N is usually not large. A reading group works better with 5 members than 15; a seminar works better with 15 than 25, much less 50, and so on." Posted by Chris Hodge at April 6, 2004 10:58 AM | Links to this post
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