Messages addressed to spaces
I just realized why the idea of
messages addressed to spaces hit me so hard. Email is a message
addressed to a person or group, where as blogging (or posting to a
newsgroup or web forum) is a message addressed to a space. A group
may or may not form at the coordinates of that space. If a group
does form, people may be there at roughly the same time, or may
visit serially, separated by hours or days or even years. Why does
this seem so special and important to me? I'm still not completely
sure, I only know that it does.
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