Intimacy Gradient
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A concept from architecture which is also used for online collaborative communities
Intimacy Gradient = organizing spaces in a sequence which corresponds to their degrees of privateness and openness
Comment by Ross Mayfield
URL = http://many.corante.com/archives/2003/12/22/think_group.php
"The ideal core/periphery structure affords a densely linked core and a dynamic perhiphery. One pattern for social software that supports this is an intimacy gradient (privacy/openness), to allow the core some privacy for backchannelling."