Re^5: Public and private communication

All true - what interesting times we live in!

People will carry on making money from content production - quite probably in new and interesting ways (witness the way PayPal and Amazon's donation system have become a poor-mans micro-payment system). Some middle men will bite the dust, but I won't shed too many tears about that ;-)

Things like blogs, Wiki's, FOAF, etc. are fascinating teasers of the way that communication and information sharing strategies are changing. Especially now that the net is becoming ubiquitous in many areas. It's odd to think that in less than ten years everybody in my social circle has gone online - techie or not. That's going to change things in interesting ways.

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Re: Re^5: Public and private communication by zby (Vicar) on Jul 03, 2003 at 15:33 UTC
Haven't we gone a full circle? The polarized world of mass media is gone we are back in the situation that everybody has the abillity to speek. The natural state is that everybody speaks and everybody listens. The problem is that we can't listen to everything. There must be mechanisms for filtering the information. One of them can be a marking by the creator indicating the intended audience. This mechanism is more fine grained then others used since the adressed audience might be a single person. And there are messages that are interesting only to a single person.	[reply]

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by zby (Vicar) on Jul 03, 2003 at 15:33 UTC

The natural state is that everybody speaks and everybody listens. The problem is that we can't listen to everything. There must be mechanisms for filtering the information. One of them can be a marking by the creator indicating the intended audience. This mechanism is more fine grained then others used since the adressed audience might be a single person. And there are messages that are interesting only to a single person.

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