Smart Mobs - The Next Social Revolution
Howard Rheingold's interesting blog for his book "Smart Mobs" ("Whole Earth Catalogue" and a bunch of other more recent stuff?).
Excerpt: Technologies of Cooperation: Forgiveness pays off as a strategy, according to modeling research reported in A forgiving strategy for the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation vol. 3, no. 4, 2000.
"Thanks to nonzero.blogspot.com
"This paper reports results obtained with a strategy for the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. The paper describes a strategy that tries to incorporate a technique to forgive strategies that have defected or retaliated, in the hope of (re-)establishing cooperation. The strategy is compared to well-known strategies in the domain and results presented. The initial findings, as well as echoing past findings, provides evidence to suggest a higher degree of forgiveness can be beneficial and may result in greater rewards."