Squawkbox this morning was a pretty interesting discussion. Most of the folks on the line were pretty dismissive of the New York Times assertion that blogging is dangerous to your health. It was very interesting to hear the different strategies that folks employed, however, to stay in shape.
We also discussed the Shel Israel / Loren Feldman dustup. Interestingly enough, most found Loren Feldman unfunny, and especially his Shel Israel spoofs. When all is said and done, parody needs to be funny and knowledgeable about the subject. It’s clear that Feldman is neither.
And lastly we got a quick preview of the IT360 show in Toronto from Evan Leibovitch.
by alec on February 19, 2007
Picking through my list of favorite bloggers this morning, I came across Jeff Pulver’s Understanding the Say Everything Generation, which is commentary on a New York Times feature from February 12, titled Say Everything. The gist? Today’s kids are different — uninhibited in what they say and do online, they’re forging a new kind of relationship reality that recognizes we have no privacy, and embraces openness on a scale never before seen.
Meh…. it makes good journalism, but I’m not sure that it’s really true. Yes, with MySpace and the like, it’s happening on a scale which has never been seen before but doesn’t anyone remember:
- The usenet? Mid 1980′s. You could regularly find people discussing their personal lives, and making friends online in the alt tree.
- The early text MUDS and MOOS? I know more than a few people who met online, and got married in meatspace later.
- The Compuserve boards of the late 1980′s and early 1990′s.
- The WELL
And what about the books that were written? Schuler’s New Community Networks, Whittle’s Cyberspace, Tapscott’s Growing Up Digital, and Rheingold’s Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier are just a few of the books that I can see by swivelling my chair in my office.Â
Don’t be misled by the NY Times. The ”Say Everything” generation is a 20 year arc, finally reaching its peak. It didn’t start yesterday.Â
