Greetings Economists, On Sep 4, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
Maybe people feel like they're being spammed, rather than engaged in conversation.
Doyle; What is conversational content: To answer my own question, it refers to the interactive content of shared information. In so far as say I write my opinions and only DH and a few others read them here in Pen-L then the conversation is really based upon the limits of face to face information processes. The limit is roughly 20 people close to me, 150 people who know me, 1000 or so I can respond to individually then conversation via face to face human ability to make information conversational via just face to face ability ceases to work. Google allows the process of sharing the information to be broadened into a form that is accessible on a much larger basis. In other words the automation of search allows the conversation information which is shared information exchange to grow in terms of the interactivity of the content. This means that the bottleneck to interactivity or what you mean by conversation is being broken by a form of automation. Therefore your question is really of two fold content, one which overtly you seem to be saying, you aren't having a conversation with Yoshie, she is spamming you, secondly what is the automation of the connection process of conversation. Thanks, Doyle
