Life With AlacrityA blog on social software, collaboration, trust, security, privacy, and internet tools, by Christopher Allen.Flames: Emotional Amplification of Text- February 13, 2006 One of the behaviors that happens in online communities and that I rarely see elsewhere is flaming, where one member writes an extremely inappropriate, typically passionately worded attack on another. Flaming behavior can hurt a online community. (Post continues on the causes of the cycle of flames...)http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2006/02/flames_emotiona.html On Being an Angel- February 1, 2006 This week has also seen a new topic enter the blog zeitgeist: the topic of reforming or reinventing venture capital. All types of venture investment -- seed, angel, venture, and institutional alike -- carry with it great risks and great rewards. But before we can reinvent venture capital and related venture funding methods like angel capital, we need to understand how it works. (Post continues with discussion of what is venture capital vs angel capital...)http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2006/01/on_being_an_ang.html |