Here comes everybody (clay shirky) p85-7
“most user-generated content isnt “content” at all, in the sense of being created for general consumption, any more than a phone call between you and a relative is ‘family-generated content’”
“we misread these seemingly inane posts because we’re so unused to seeing written material in public that isnt intended for us”
“the distinction between communications and broadcast media was always a function of technology rather than a deep truth about human nature”
Communications-one to one
Broadcast-one to many
New-many to many
“now that our communications technology is changing, the distinction among those patterns is evaporating…used to be so clear that we could distinguish between a personal and impersonal message just by the type of medium used”
