Politics / Economics blogger Billmon just got sent up to the world economic forum in Davos, where people who are far richer than you and I talk about how they'll spend our money in the next year.
Interestingly, Davos had a forum on blogs. Billmon reports:
The truth, of course, is that blogs are doing more than just about any other modern institution (if institution is the right word for something as anarchistic as the blogosphere) to recreate a common communication space, and encourage maximum public participation.
Just because the web is decentralized doesn't mean it's fractured. Thanks to the miracle of Google (not to mention the even more powerful search tools coming on line) any piece of information or artistic content that exists anywhere on the web is also accessible everywhere on the web. This is why experiences (Dean's yeaaahhh!!!) can shared so widely. And the sharing is two-way. I can sit here in Davos and make fun of the scream, and others can flame me for helping destroy the greatest presidential candidate in American history.
(but read the whole thing!)
Posted by danyelf at January 27, 2004 01:17 AM