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Re: The tech blogosphere is a closed circle feeding on itself

webomatica — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:33:49 -0000

Technology is just a tool. I'm sure the inventors of television optimistically thought of all the good it could have been - education, bringing people together, allowing people to communicate visually - and now in the present day it's debatable how much good it has really done, knowing all the time wasting, absolute schlock aired on a regular basis. Even my favorite show, Battlestar Galactica, doesn't exactly save lives or feed the world. It's entertainment.

Re: The tech blogosphere is a closed circle feeding on itself

buckpost — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:02:37 -0000

Steve,

I was thinking along the same lines after reading this article in The New Yorker - http://tinyurl.com/6qxkd7 - about whether the world's food system is collapsing. It puts all the bitching and moaning into the right context. Not to suggest what's happening in the the tech world isn't valuable but we all need to step back once in a while, and take a deep breath.

mark

Re: The tech blogosphere is a closed circle feeding on itself

sjgoldie — Mon, 19 May 2008 08:53:41 -0000

Excellent post and you make some good points. I have a question: Is it possible that the web is not the tool for change that people think it can be? When the majority of problems faced are physical things such as hunger, poverty, and war, maybe it's not possible to change the world with the web beyond creating tools to raise awareness and raise money. The traditional role of 'old media' was just this ... a newspaper will not feed a family of 5 in Africa but a well written article may raise awareness of their plight. Perhaps the greatest benefit the web can give society is the ability to share information with greater speed and reach, for example enabling geographically dispersed scientists to work together to come up with a better, cheaper way to grow rice. There just may not be many more possibilities for the future of the web other than streamlining the exchange of information.

Re: Why I follow thousands of friends on Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed and Seesmic

sjgoldie — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:37:56 -0000

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