The free arts and the servile arts
Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 23-02-2009
I have taken it upon myself to mash up the words of Steve Gillmor, posted yesterday at TechCrunchIT, and the words of Andrew Louth, published in 2003 at the Times Higher Education site: Gillmor: Were at the threshold of the realtime moment. The advent of a reasonably realtime message bus over public networks has changed something about the existing infrastructure in ways that are not yet important to a broad section of Internet dwellers. The numbers are adding up 175 million Facebook users, tens of thousands of instant Twitter followers, constant texting and video chats among the teenage crowd….

