This article begins as it should with a discussion of Ben Werdmuller's Elgg social software. Eventually, it gets around to its main point: "The key lesson to be drawn from this is that, if the architecture is sufficiently and cleanly modular (as Elgg's is), then it may now be more effective to recreate components from scratch than to maintain the ones you have already written." As a community, we've thought a lot over the years about what this architecture looks like. Jon Dron discusses what he calls "a new paradigm for building plugin-based social applications." Quite right. This is important to me because that's exactly the philosophy I'm using to design CList - you can see the architecture emerging here. The major difference, though, is that I want individuals to be able to design their own environment, and not to be locked into whatever a community decides. An autotecture, if you will, instead of an ochlotecture.
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