The internet--the blogosphere--will play out in one of two ways. Either it will become a platform for a great experiment in Athenian democracy where everyone has a part, or it will become Babel and will split apart entirely into disconnected voices without a shared language. What will determine this is how strictly people seek out only those voices that reinforce their own.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Athens or Babel?
This is from an interview this morning with Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, on the Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC. I am paraphrasing by memory, so any inaccuracies in quoting are mine.
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Just the other day I mentioned to someone that studying the phenomenon that blogs are quickly becoming could be a GREAT thesis. Take the case of Baby Noah. Noah came into the world on June 10th and due to a very strange disease, he left the world on January 12th. Through the course of the whole process, his mother maintained a blog that ended up reaching over 25,000 people across 25 countries.
I am very sorry to hear that little Noah was in this world only for such a short time. I wished him and his family well.
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