ICYMI, @dickc's speech on Twitter as the new Agora was brilliant, and fits neatly into my "ancient social media" book http://www.fordschool.umich.edu/video/newest/1975704207001/ …
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@dickc I do, for 91K words. Roman Twitter, Tudor Facebook, English Civil War blogs, coffeehouse internet, poems in pre-Revolutionary FranceThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@dickc The book will be published by Bloomsbury in October. Can I send you a galley to look at in a couple of months? -
@tomstandage That would be wonderful. I was just going to go to amazon & see if i could pre-order it! -
@dickc There is an Amazon page but it's just a placeholder. http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Wall-Standage-Tom/dp/1408842068/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357577743&sr=8-1&keywords=writing+wall+standage … I'll send you a copy. Will ask@kvox for your e-mail
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@dickc The over-arching narrative is the rebirth of social media after the 170-year blip of mass media. So I liked your "new Agora" thesis -
@tomstandage can't wait to read it. -
@dickc One more tweet and I'll shut up. Here's an excerpt, on the distractions of social media in 1673:http://tomstandage.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/the-distractions-of-social-media-1673-style/ … -
@tomstandage@dickc Does this tie in with Vonnegut's thesis (from awhile ago) that mass media suppressed amateur hobbies? -
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@tomstandage@dickc More like mass media provided a standard and an exhaustiveness that no living room artist could meet, so stopped. -
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@tomstandage the joy of being an expert amateur, rather than looking to mass-produced content and goods as a consumer. - 1 more reply
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