on distributed presence (and blogrolls)

by E Wayne Ross on November 14, 2007

From Creativity/Machine: on distributed presence (and blogrolls)

One of the things I find most interesting about the current proliferation and extensive uptake of various ’social media’ technologies, from RSS readers, to del.icio.us, facebook and twitter as well as weblogs themselves, is the decentralising effect that these technologies are having the ‘online presence’ of individuals, at the same time as these technologies are being adopted at scale. Put simply, there are more of us online, in more places. But is more really more?