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September 25, 2002

Christian Crumlish

Charly Z also hepped me to Daniel Danilov's Reflections, where he recently posted a think-piece about how blogs help impose a mental grid on raw data, part of the process the mind uses to turn that data into relevant information:

Anyone who complains about blogs being a waste of space or anything of the sort is probably completely non-discriminating in their approach to reading this vast store of material, or is completely dense, or both.

Posted by xian at September 25, 2002 11:00 AM

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