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By: walt

walt — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:17:59 +0000

Thanks (and I commented on your post, briefly). So maybe I should have said “no clear causal relationship”–of course, the ignorance being cited was of the sort that pretty clearly predates Web 2.0 altogether.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:49:24 +0000

Interesting as always, Walt. One Google note:

http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001232.html

Minor dissent about some other remarks:

“There is no correlation between Web 2.0 (whatever that means) and ignorance or rejection of authority.”

I disagree – I think there’s a very deep correlation. “Web 2.0″ is about data-mining and digital-sharecropping. Those CORRELATE (not cause, but correlate) with the YOU-YES-YOU marketing relying on ignorance or rejection of authority.

“There is good reason to believe that increased access to means of distribution will reduce ignorance in the long run.”

Maybe. But there’s also problem with the opposite. The deep issue is that ignorance sells better, and there’s a lot of money (see above) in hyping it.

By: walt

walt — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:24:17 +0000

Sorry if I overinterpreted what I read in your blog. I ignored the “I’ve ever seen” qualifier…no reason to believe you’ve read Future Libraries, is there? And thanks.

By: Dorothea Salo

Dorothea Salo — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:18:59 +0000

Minor nitpick: I haven’t read the entirety of Gorman’s oeuvre, and in the blog post of mine you cite, I thought I’d made that pretty clear.

Aside from that, excellent issue.

By: walt

walt — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:22:33 +0000

Thanks Mark. This was, as should be obvious, an odd issue to put together. Next month (I think!), maybe more typical…and if timing works out right, maybe a new book to introduce. Or maybe not. (Not the L2 book: That one’s not happening.)

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:26:12 +0000

This is part of the comment on this issue of C&I that will be in next week’s “Some Things Read…” post, but I didn’t want to make you wait a week to see it:

I think you did a fine job, Walt. As I said elsewhere (probably as a comment on your blog), I was/am interested in any direction in which you took the topic and continued the conversation. Thank you!