Online Life

Dave Winer, The frenzy of online:

This isn’t communication, or sharing. It’s growing more and more frenetic every day, it seems. And more pointless.

I’ve often had the thought that our social networks are the same thing every day, with just slightly different details. When I skip them for a few days, I find that I have absolutely no feeling of missing anything.

Here are some things that don’t give me that same-thing-every-day feeling: making things, reading books, and talking to people in real life.

(Currently reading The Quiet American.)