I share your perspective, Tom. What would we get? That is what we're supposed to be considering as well.
My thoughts are a common, centralized area owned by the community but using all tools available externally. There was a time when this list was a thriving cornucopia of ideas, thoughts, and much more. And I wonder whether people are still interested in that sort of discussion. tom abeles wrote: > Hi Cindy > > First, on charging a ¨fee¨. Tax Deductable? As my farmer brother-in-law says > ¨deductable against what? > > Second, given networking in the web 2.0 world with U-Tube, Twitter, Linkedin, > Wiki´s and so many other social networks, what do we get for a fee that this > list and other tagged, networked, distributed and . . . systems don´t give > for free. Fees are the equivalent of the Great Wall that walls information > out and not in. It creates filters that are normally made by those on the net > who choose how to access and limit access to the one non-leveragable > commodity, TIME. And that is the individual´s responsibility. > > thoughts? > > tom > > -- Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.your2ndplace.com http://www.opendepth.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/ "Criticize by Creating" - Michelangelo "The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
