The kids are alright

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On London’s absurd anti-anti-social behavior zones.

There’s a curfew for unsupervised under-16s, from 9pm to 6am. Any group of 2 or more people can be broken up and/or that the member of the group have to leave the designated area (if they do not live there). Crucially, police do not have to see actual anti-social behaviour, but a constable in uniform has reasonable grounds for believing that the presence or behaviour of a group of two or more persons in any public place in the relevant locality has resulted, or is likely to result, in any members of the public being intimidated, harassed, alarmed or distressed.

When I checked to see who had bookmarked this, all but one of the seven were already in my network (I’ve since added the outlier, dotx3).

This link is a perfect candidate for becoming a shibboleth (shibbolink?) by which I identify people I might add to my network. If somebody saves this link, there’s a good chance they’re interested in any number of things that also interest me (e.g., geography, mapping, London, and the rights of marginalized groups).

I’ve begun keeping track of similarly distinguishing bookmarks using the shibbolink tag. We’ll see how it goes.

Those first five bookmarkers are in my Network too, but I think paying too much attention to that can lead to a weird kind of Network inbreeding. Still, for my bookmarks where only a few people have saved the page, I almost always check the URL details and click on the usernames of people with interesting notes or tags.

I think you’re right about the network inbreeding effect. But since you good people at delicious.com have added network bundling, I worry less about inbreeding and more about sorting my network into appropriate groupings.