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by Mark Masterson.
Original Post: Tim Bray on future information politics
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I dunno, I go there and see the same stories about the RIAA and Paul Graham’s latest essay and what Apple might be doing, the same stories that are on Slashdot and Ars Technica and boring old ZDnet too. Plus a smattering of whatever Scoble & Winer & Arrington & Calcanis and their posses are up to. Plus all these vendors trying to convince everyone that they need “Rich” Internet Applications. (I think rich interaction is about people not animated vector graphics, but what do I know?) There’s nothing wrong with it. But also nothing I’m not getting already.
TechCrunch? The top story when I last checked was “Pixsy To Power Search On Veoh”. I’m containing my excitement.
Indeed. Here's an anecdote: I was at a party recently, and engaged in one corner of the room with a group of people who all work in IT for a living, but like many enterprisey people, have only just begun to realize that there is a world outside of the likes of ZDNet. The point of the conversation was to elicit some opinions from me about things like blogs. The conversation reached a point where I said something like: "Oh, but I don't read either Scoble or Slashdot, anymore. Too much junk. I prefer stuff like Tim Bray, James Governor and Reg Braithwaite." The hushed silence this produced, along with the hesitant, foot-shuffling questions that followed it, startled me a bit, and made me realize that I had just done the 21st century equivalent of saying the following: "Oh, but since I sold the BMW and got the Aston-Martin, I've become aware of how vast the difference really is" -- at a cocktail party full of BMW owners. I was grinning the rest of the evening.
So. Let me be so bold, and add a "fearless prediction" to Tim's: it will not just be about who (or what) you read (or follow, or whatever) -- it will also be about who you don't.
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