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adding page while reading Yochai Benkler‘s wealth of networks..

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Blogging software allows the person who runs a blog to permit some, all, or none of the readers to post comments to the blog, ..The result is therefore not only that many more people write finished statements and disseminate them widely, but also that the end product is a weighted conversation, rather than a finished good. It is a conversation because of the common practice of allowing and posting comments, as well as comments to these comments.

why no comments on redefine..

perhaps modeling Pascal‘s quiet room.. echo chamber ness.. virtually..

when the site started shaping into a wikipedia style space – rather than chronologically ordered pages – i started opting out of allowing comments.. thinking they would distract me from thinking..- i felt i needed that bubble for self-talk space.. spaces of permission with nothing to prove/defend et al.

not against conversation with others.. vital to one ness.. to betterness.. (in fact 1 of 2 needs/convos).. just need the grounding of ongoing gut checks..

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also, perhaps, fractally significant.. it seems this has helped me develop a clearer articulation or at least idiosyncratic articulation/conception (previously the all-over-ness proved to be a welcome – albeit frustrating at times – buffer) of the vision. with yet/still no desire to articulate as to persuade et al – as the debating/conversing – about this – won’t get us to this – so much as doing it will…