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Re: The Dave Era - Monday, March 20, 2006
I'm with you, Doc. Dave changed my life. It was a type of leadership by example. His blogging, his design principles, the extended conversation and subtle experiments that led to innovation; all in public. He took abstractions about conversation and personal publishing and made them real. There have been warning signs for two years. The whole "we'll explain blogging to you' consulting and conference business. Blogging For Dummies. Blogging becoming a mainstream verb. Dave becoming more popular than he knew what to do with. The halt to new vocabulary related to blogging, and the retirement of old terms. Chasms crossed, the technology and behavior of blogging will evolve naturally. New forces of natural selection are at play: commerce, political, and cultural. They'll be incremental for the most part, that's how it usually works. I'm looking for the mutations that lead to very different things. Like podcasting's logical leap from blogging/syndication to something all its own. Like p2p's jump from bootlegging to telephony.
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