Friction

In non-centralized/consensus collaborations like the Occupy Cincinnati movement, there will always be friction as individual pieces all move in their own direction. Thankfully so far there haven't been any major falling outs - just bickering over technicalities. Shit is going to change constantly. That is the nature of a group organized as fluidly as ours. Lets use this fluidity to our advantage by letting shit change and wait for the best combinations of chance and circumstance to reveal themselves to us on their own.

Our biggest problem is this: when we as a group cannot even manage to constrain our transfers of information to a single medium, a fracturing along the boundaries of our multiple media is inevitable. Half of our collaborations are being lost to email exchange while updates to the Facebook and OccupyCincy.org lag behind by hours. If we are to retain coherence as a movement we MUST constrain all forms of group communication to a single medium.

The subreddit assembly is the perfect medium for organizations like ours. We can have discussion. We can have votes. We have a search engine for the entire contents of our subreddit right there on the right side of the page. But most of all, we have a single point of information transfer between all members of our group.

There will be PLENTY of time to smooth out kinks as our movement grows and evolves through the oncoming weeks, months, and hopefully, years. Friction between individuals is inevitable. Friction between our means of communicating is.