Joi Ito: Full-Time Intimate Community.
- jim 3-27-2004 5:16 am

this is unnervingly appealing to me. I think I have a problem.
- sally mckay 3-27-2004 7:38 pm


I don't think it's a problem.

He really nails it here I think: "how presence and context is, in ways, more interesting than content and that content is just the carrier signal or substrate upon which community is built." I am perhaps too old to really grok this, since I still instinctively cling to the notion that content somehow justifies everything else, but I don't think people will think like that in the future. Which is to say, I don't think younger people use the net like I think I do - they use it like Joi is pointing out here. Or that's my guess at least.

FWIW, if people don't know, Joi Ito is a serious character. He runs a huge VC fund. Not to knock any other bloggers - like, um, myself - but he's not just another geek spouting off on things poorly understood.

Here's a Christopher Lydon interview, and here's a Fast Company article.

Interesting to note that he has just put a tremendous amount of support behind sixapart, makers of Movable Type.
- jim 3-27-2004 8:09 pm


When I do the thought experiment on giving myself permission to spend as much time/energy as I'd like on exploring forms of digital interconnection, the sacrifice that pops into my head is my deep connection to local friends (that I currently see almost daily), and dutiful connection to remote family who are untechnological. The following extrapolation is a stretch, but maybe we are seeing a cause/symptom of the dissolution of the nuclear family here? If so, there's lots and lots to be lost, but I personally would be more intrigued than grief stricken. I do, however, share with you a fundamental belief in content. Its the constant content that has me addicted to Digital Media Tree.
- sally mckay 3-27-2004 8:48 pm


this feeling has just completely changed around for me due to my new ibook with airport card. Means I can be with my local friends and still be online. I don't completely understand why this is such a relief, but I feel a bit like some pending disaster has been averted.
- sally mckay 3-29-2004 1:30 am


Brand new? I didn't know you had an Mac.
- jim 3-29-2004 2:30 am


always a mac (requisite for us art/design types)...G3 tower - now I've got the G4 ibook as well. Learning OSX now (comfortably well behind the trend, as usual) and I must say so far its very very nice. I like Safari a lot. The bookmarks organisation system is great: folders in the favourites bar ... and also you can make the fonts bigger/smaller with command + and - , to taste. Also, everybody's gifs look fine.
- sally mckay 3-29-2004 4:57 am





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