http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/11/07/is-blogging-really-a-conversation/ any technology distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:02:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/11/07/is-blogging-really-a-conversation/#comment-23643 David Canton Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:06:56 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/11/07/is-blogging-really-a-conversation/#comment-23643 I disagree:) I disagree:)

]]> http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/11/07/is-blogging-really-a-conversation/#comment-23579 Mathew Ingram Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:52:14 +0000 http://www.robhyndman.com/2006/11/07/is-blogging-really-a-conversation/#comment-23579 What I seem to be realizing more and more is that when we say blogs and Web 2.0 are part of "a conversation," it means every type of conversation that is possible in the real world and then some -- both good and bad. In other words, there's the "conversation" in which someone is lying, the one in which someone is shouting drunken epithets, the one in which someone is self-aggrandizing, the one in which someone is begging for attention, and so on. Human nature writ large (or small, as the case may be) :-) What I seem to be realizing more and more is that when we say blogs and Web 2.0 are part of “a conversation,” it means every type of conversation that is possible in the real world and then some — both good and bad. In other words, there’s the “conversation” in which someone is lying, the one in which someone is shouting drunken epithets, the one in which someone is self-aggrandizing, the one in which someone is begging for attention, and so on. Human nature writ large (or small, as the case may be)

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