Notes on The Coffee Shop and The Blogosphere

Lee Siegle sits down with the WSJ.com to talk about his new book Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. My opinion is that this book serves as a controversy point to sell some copies. I don't think he arguments that interacting in the blogosphere is like interacting with ghosts. The Internet serves as a portal to interact with Chinese, Welsh, Norwegian, South African and so on. Though there my not be the personal connection that a coffee shop conversation lends, but the diversity of conversation is unmatchable. So what if we don't ever see these people, does that make their comments or ideas different? The book seems like it might be an interesting ...