kottke.org :: James Gleick on What Just Happened
I thought this was an interesting piece. The other day I spoke to Dawn (via email) and she mentioned helping a friend get his blog set up. Last week I helped Cory get a blog running, and today I convinced a friend to start one (I'll link him when he does).
I find the whole thing fascinating. The communication networks that are formed are amazing to me. When I came across Dawn's page and started exploring the blogs linked in turn from there, I found myself stumbling into a whole other network of people. If you click around though, you'll find the blogs on her site aren't more than three clicks away from getting to the blogs linked on mine (such as kottke, and zeldman). When I found her site, I was like "wow, this is a group of people who discuss a whole different set of things from technology." However, it only takes one person in each group to understand the other group, and a connection is formed... It's really exhilirating...
What's the relation? I need to reread, but the people who link the networks might be socializers...