Darwin Magazine: The Threads of
Darwin Magazine: The Threads of ConversationDavid Weinberger: Web conversation is threaded differently than real world conversation. Because real world conversation occurs in real time, the threading is sequential, not simultaneous: a topic is pursued until another arises, one topic after another. The topics may reemerge and may shed light on one another, but they occur one thread at a time. And a new topic has to be something likely to be of interest to everyone in the group, because in the real world, we can’t just bop in and out of the conversation; once there, we’re committed to stay, stifling our yawns and building a mental list of all the ways our lunch companion is a self-centered bore.
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