From: Dan Brickley (Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 14:13:23 PDT
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Dave Winer wrote:
> >>Since DaveNet pieces on FoRK are old bits by definition,
>
> Huh? What definition?
somewhere in the depths of Adam's FoRK FAQ,
lovingly maintained at http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/LOCAL/faq-fork.html
( from Ernie) FoRK is a virtual community. A community
defined, in this case, as
a group of people who jointly share some finite resource
for a common end The
resource in this case being attention span and mailbox
windows, the end being
increased bits. (see also, FOuR Koans, or "What are the
rules of FoRK?")
Commandment 2: Thou shalt forward only new bits. Most humor is not new
bits; if you forward old bits to FoRK, you must pay the
penalty of finding new bits
within 24 hours, or suffer the fate of being tagged a
97%er by your peers.
(the 97% thing being my least favourite thing about FoRK culture, but
that's another rant...)
Dan
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