Thursday, December 17, 2009

"One of the defining features of social media, if not the defining feature, is its participatory nature. Anyone, everyone, is a content producer."

Writers and other craftspeople ("Emily Dickinson and Gustav Mahler and Paul Gauguin") are not content producers; they're form producers. The devolution of interpersonal communication to data transfer is the problem in a nutshell.

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