centralizations

It all to me seems to be an issue of ever greater centralizations of power across all fields, contrary to the "responsible freedom within small self-governing groups, which is the first condition of a genuine democracy"- Huxley, Brave New World Revisited.

Seven answers from ... Frank Wilson 2007

He notes the several steps, the customary steps, which in all the ages have led to the consolidation of loose and scattered governmental forces into formidable centralizations of authority; but he stops there, and doesn't add up the sum.

Chapters from My Autobiography Mark Twain 1872

In this case, the two centralizations, one ecclesiastic and the other secular, both increasing and prodigiously augmented for a century, work together to overpower the individual.

The Modern Regime, Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860

The infant school, the factory, the Union, and other wholesale centralizations, ruin the affections of our poor.

The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849

Slide 15: Findings: Gaim • Average centralizations lowest for user email list and highest for the developer lists: number of participants matters • Standard deviations of the centralizations for the user forum and the trackers are comparable, while the standard deviation for the developer lists was much lower: consistency of participation •

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Slide 14: Findings: Variations in Dynamics • Compared mean and standard deviation of centralizations in aggregated venues • For both projects, different venues showed different communication dynamics

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This has meant centralizations, outsourcing, insourcing, and an emphasis on protecting content and sales.

pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator (real estate blogs) 2008

Slide 16: Findings: Fire • Comparable mean values for centralizations for user and developer venues, but higher for tracker - Anomalous data pattern, to be explained momentarily • Excluding the anomalous tracker data, means and standard deviations of centralizations for trackers and email lists were comparable • Suggests a degree of regularity across the communication venues • All venues tended toward decentralization over time - Except for that anomaly …

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This has meant centralizations, outsourcing, insourcing, and an emphasis on protecting content and sales.

pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator (real estate blogs) 2008

Date range • Outputs - Time series graph of centralizations with summary stats - CSV of dates and centralization values for additional analysis

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