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the internet galaxy revisited

nospam@example.com (Guido Stevens) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:51:00 +0100

In 2001, Manuel Castells published an instant classic: The Internet Galaxy, Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society. Re-reading it strikes you full force with the enormity of changes we've seen already, in the few years since 2001.

Here your are, in the age of World of Warcraft and Facebook, reading a text that analyzes role-playing chat environments and The Well as premier instances of social behaviour on the internet. Meet The Flintstones.

However, in other respects, Castells turns out to be a powerful visionary.

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Mitch Kapor leaves Chandler

nospam@example.com (Guido Stevens) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:27:00 +0100

Not every project can succeed. Now Mitch Kapor leaves OSAF, the chances for Chandler to fulfill it's vision have become very slim indeed.

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cyberspace flashback

nospam@example.com (Guido Stevens) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:48:11 +0100

Rolling Stone features an interview with William Gibson

My assumption has always been that at some point we would lock on to a literally exponential increase in human knowledge. That was my best guess, somewhere back in the Seventies.

Gibson invented the word cyberspace. As in transcyberia....

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