Where's the balance between sharing relevant, important information which someone should really care about and well, just indiscriminately blasting information at people? How do you reach the nirvana of a juicy, rich conversation laden with engagement, facts and potential for follow-up? It is definitely in the content and absolutely in the delivery. The tension to share information is on my mind as I'm both a recipient and sender...
Oh, to have had a crystal ball back in 1994 or 1995...Clifford Stoll's commentary on the future of the internet (The Internet? Bah!) in Newsweek (February 27, 1995) http://www.newsweek.com/id/106554/page/1 is mildly amusing when read today ("The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works."). And as for how we're...