I feel the main point in your critics is:
The paper doesn't compare public and private communication - it compares commercially produced content and everything else.
I must admit it is a good point and I was a bit slopy using the article. They do concentrate on the economic side of things, but the data they collected to support their thesis is more about public and private communication than commercially and noncommercially produced content. What they compare is mass media (which is clearly public) and communication i.e. phone and post (which I would describe as nearly entirely private). So I just used more their data than their analysis.

I must admit I don't have any experiences in developing online communities (other then participating in a few of them). So all of my arguments are just speculations.

Perhaps public/private is wrong distinction, perhaps it indeed should all be public in the sense that it would be available to everybody, but just some part of the information, addressed individually, would be by default filtered out by all others then the individuall (althogh by a change in the settings they could view it).

In reply to Re: Re^3: Public and private communication by zby
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