Stephen Downes

Jim Groom channels Tim Klapdor on the evolution of the media as noise machine. "The medium doesn't matter, there's no message anymore," writes Klapdor. "No one's really trying to communicate anything." So "Maybe the new Golden Age begins with a simple post that references someone who stirred you," writes Groom. "Links do a lot of work online. Throw in a ping or even a trackback and we might have a simple, stable, and scalable solution. I don't want to create as much as I want to connect, but it turns out the two are always deeply related."