Internet 2.0: the economic, social and cultural consequences of the new Internet

This is very interesting in that it seems to be giving a solid basis is material culture /artefacticity that the vaunted pomo return to community from modernist individualism may truly be on the way.

these people were reforming personhood and the self. The self was not merely better connected, but now more porous, more distributed, more cloud like. This cultural fundamental, the definition of what and who a person is, was changing. (In the Attiyeh interview, Weinberger talks about buddy lists in the West and what he calls the "continuous presence" of friends.)
When I listen to Clay Shirkey (pictured) talk about categories of knowledge and the tags by which it is organized, I begin to wonder, as he does more brilliantly than I could hope to, whether we are looking at new ideas of the idea.

It is something that we will need to get our heads round ecclesiologically and theologically. The individualism that sustains the plausibility of believers'-only baptimsm, for example, may be about to crumble ...
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