More like performing

This thought came from an IM conversation I had with the lovely and talented Rachel. One of them anyway, there are many. Orkut, we agreed, is in many ways more like performance art than like conversation or writing. I had this thought the other day while I was avoiding Orkut. I thought a little about […]

This thought came from an IM conversation I had with the lovely and talented Rachel. One of them anyway, there are many.

Orkut, we agreed, is in many ways more like performance art than like conversation or writing.

I had this thought the other day while I was avoiding Orkut. I thought a little about why it’s different from any other on-line forum I’ve ever been in. And it is different; people claim it’s not, say it’s just USENET or it’s just [insert your favorite].

But it’s different; that’s a given. The questions then are; what makes different, and how is it different.

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