Constellational Planes and Event Horizons

Chime.In is a new social media interface/platform organized for the purposes of connecting users through interest groups. As creator Bill Gross describes in his GigaOm interview, this may be the first successful foray into generating intellectual tribes in hyperspace. The question for me on the NE side is: will the primary attractive force acting to aggregate and organize interest and information be the particular interests or subject matter, or will it be individuals, lightning rod personalities through which content, and opinions regarding content, is channeled? In a cosmic model of social hyperspace, where interrelated, interconnected content communities can be conceptualized as constellations, or perhaps planes of constellations (assuming some degree of social segmenting), does the content or the content creator act as a gravitational force?


Gross explains that at Chime.In, "the fundamental unit of conversation in this new network is called a “chime,” and it is 250 characters and an image. You can also tag it with interests or topics, and we also do semantic tagging if you don’t want to add tags."

I find it peculiar to attempt to assign a finite character limit, as per Facebook, Twitter, and now Chime.In, to thought events. This segues somewhat tangentially into Terence McKenna's conception of reality, wherein all the universe is comprised of events, and cannot be conceived of as a static entity at any single point in time. Single points in time become meaningless, because all "objects," which we conceive of as static, unchanging entities, in fact require particular lengths of time over which the full "essence" of the object, in whatever way conceived, is fully cycled in and out of existence. 


Reality is then comprised of events. Events which, as just described, have unique horizons--certain boundary conditions on their existence over time. Perhaps in the new social hyperspace, there might be fruitful applications for detecting, identifying, and tracking events and their horizons. Interactions of things may be more fruitfully explained in such a paradigm. To these ends, I have in my mind a few complex interactional, and adaptive systems--economies, body politics, and societies. Constellational planes if you will.