From: "Mike Schwartz" > But I think that the nature of the internet does have the potential > to level the playing field, where a person's reputation is based upon > their power to think, to put ideas in to words, to express opinions > honestly, etc. Er. I think that's what's *supposed* to happen. In reality, people seem to base internet reputations on whether the person posting agrees with their own views. Either that or they base them on whether the person posting is famous, is attractive, or has made many funny LOLcats. > IMHO, this potentially could be a good thing for the future. One problem is that if everyone has a printing press, there's so much info out there that an individual can't process more than a tiny fraction of it. They called this "information overload" back in the 1980s. We have something similar today. There are so many blogs and news sites that I *know* I'm missing places that I'd enjoy, just because I don't know about them or am too busy reading the places I like to search for new places. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss