My comment WAS for that article, written by you.

But I also sent the article linked to in the Where Do People Find the Time? post round as well, because I thought that was also excellent.

Do you know what, Pete. Delete these comments would you? You pro’ blog looked all professional and swanky until I started using the comments function.

Doh!

I think I’m going to send that link to a whole bunch of people.

Thanks for the comment. It’s prompting many thoughts about all this but for now I’ll just like to this post by Clay Shirky which this reminded me of:

http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html

The key passage is:

So I tell her all this stuff, and I think, “Okay, we’re going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever.” That wasn’t her question. She heard this story and she shook her head and said, “Where do people find the time?” That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, “No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you’ve been masking for 50 years.”

But the whole thing is worth reading.

Thank you for giving my tub-thumping piece brain-space. Your response is eloquent and considered. Clearly I am kind of on-board with your project and you’re kind of on-board with mine.

Obviously the Stan’s Cafe website is important to us and the blog is a useful tool. We even have a secret on-line company bulletin board to try and keep a sense of cohesion in our loose association. As you cling to the analogue delights of chatting to people in a pub so I’ve long since ceased to sit with my Shaffer Medium-Right Oblique and pen letters in the analogue form.

So you may well ask, if I am signed up to a digital world why go Nuclear Option in the article? Well, where’s the fun in caveats? What’s the point in a provocation piece without being provocative? If I weren’t so playful maybe you wouldn’t have been moved to respond and we wouldn’t be having this ‘conversation’. A conversation aptly leaping from newsprint to blog.

I make my living creating live events, I’m fighting my corner, I’m defending my livelyhood. In fact, more seriously, I’m defending the diversity of our culture. Something we both value.

Keep up the good work. We will.

Best wishes

James