Tuesdays with a farmer -- Communities and networks

Farmer: You have a micro life, just like you have a global life! If you want to rent out your scooter, you are only going to lend it to your neighbor, not to anyone living in Nebraska. At Craigslist, communities are being created in such intimacy that you could not have ever ever done without this kind of technology. Technology has been tempered in such a way that it enables them to do exactly what you want. 

Net is about diffusion of value.

Facebooking your roots

On a regular week day morning, while performing my daily morning Facebook ablutions, I noticed something quite interesting. In one of the infinitely long list of friend feeds, those little white spaces where friends’ individual expression finds its crammed place in my social world, I found an interesting comment from a not so intimate friend: “In this place[Facebook], I don’t feel lonely at all

The comment left me with mixed feelings.