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Re: Medium of exchange versus "store" (or preferably co-creator) of value
Couldn't agree more with you, Doc. I've never seen the blogosphere as a pure exchange medium, it has been a source of ideas and inspiration for me, and a place where I can learn. Of course we have snowballs, but some of them are glacial in speed; the snowball analogy is useful to show growth and lack of ownership, but is less useful on the speed aspect.
In this past week I have probably had ten comments on posts that are at least a week old, some on posts over a month old. That suggests reflection rather than mindless speed.
I find it hard to stomach the comment "The technology can leave us with too little time to mull and digest". I can't figure out how the technology that underpins blogs FORCES people to do anything at all. I've always been able to read, digest, mull, and respond in MY time. But maybe I'm weird.
Worth a blog post later.
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