Sure Sean… I just read these comments back… i’ve been answering you while feeding Oscar and they read more antagonistic than I meant them…
my apologies.
I agree with you. Network yes. emergent yes. long tail yes. But why does it need to come from only one place? I distrust the hegemonic and the overly normative. I think of things like Facebook and Second Life as over impacting our understanding and awareness of possibilities. I would far prefer hundreds of smaller communities that I could go and visit than the massive chunk of space that is SL.
how’s that sound?