Life With Alacrity

Alacrity, noun. From the Latin alacritus meaning promptitude. Similar in meaning to its synonyms Velocity and Celerity, all three mean quickness in action or movement. Alacrity stresses promptness in response to a suggestion or command, cheerful and eager willingness, appropriate quickness, and in general the beginning of fast movement.

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A blog on social software, collaboration, trust, security, privacy, and internet tools, by Christopher Allen.

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  • RFC 2246 - The TLS Standard (1999)
  • Communication & Conversation (1990)
  • Definitions of Groupware (1990)

Popular Posts

  • 2006-02: Flames: Emotional Amplification of Text
  • 2006-01: On Being an Angel
  • 2005-12: Systems for Collective Choice
  • 2005-10: SynchroEdit: Simultaneous Editing for the Web
  • 2005-10: Dunbar Number & Group Cohesion
  • 2005-08: Dunbar & World of Warcraft
  • 2005-07: Cheers: Belongingness and Para-Social Relationships
  • 2005-03: Dunbar, Altruistic Punishment, and Meta-Moderation
  • 2005-02: Dunbar Triage: Too Many Connections
  • 2004-10: Tracing the Evolution of Social Software
  • 2004-08: Progressive Trust
  • 2004-08: Intimacy Gradient and Other Lessons from Architecture
  • 2004-05: Simple Yet Sophisticated Group Page Editing
  • 2004-04: Four Kinds of Privacy
  • 2004-03: The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
  • 2004-02: Security & Cryptography: The Bad Business of Fear
  • 2004-02: My Advice to Social Networking Services
  • 2004-02: Hand-Crafting My FOAF
  • 2004-02: Followup on Orkut
  • 2004-01: Insecurity at Orkut
  • 2003-12: Followup to "Evaluating Social Network Services"
  • 2003-12: Evaluating Social Network Services

Recent Posts

  • Community by the Numbers, Part One: Group Thresholds
  • New Blog for Ephemera
  • In Seoul for the Social Web
  • iPhoneDevCamp and Hack-a-Thon
  • Getting Ready for the iPhone
  • Collective Choice: Experimenting with Ratings
  • Speaking about SynchroEdit at WikiWednesday
  • Ratings: Who Do You Trust?
  • Dunbar Number Presentation at MeshForum 2006
  • Using 5-Star Rating Systems

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  • Michael Crowe on The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
  • Vince on My Advice to Social Networking Services
  • Jonathan on Using 5-Star Rating Systems
  • Ford on Cheers: Belongingness and Para-Social Relationships
  • Matthew Weigel on Collective Choice: Competitive Ranking Systems
  • dan on Evaluating Social Network Services

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