Thank you Simon, I like the point about, if people were made to make a choice between only having either Email or the Web - which would they choose? Email!
Email is a better medium for "conversation" then most web-sites, eh. Kind of says something doesn't? I guess our List is a good example :-) Cheers....... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Boddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 11:32 AM Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] Repetitive Mistake Syndrome > Hi List, > glad you liked the article Scott. I can see what you're saying. I suppose we are more prone disagree about means than ends. > > On the subject of point-to-point v. broadcasting, has everyone seen Andrew Odlyzko's "Content is not King". It's a couple of years old now, but brilliant. > > The argument is that there is a longstanding prejudice in favour of 'content', but connectivity is what people want, and ultimately are prepared to pay for. He quotes a historian of US Postal service: "In 1832, newspapers generated no more than 15 percent of total postal revenues, while making up as much as 95 percent of the weight". > http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_2/odlyzko/#John > > Well that's it from me. I have no other interesting links. > > Regards Simon. > -- > _______________________________________________ > Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net > > Powered by Outblaze > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
