Comments on: The 18th Century Internet http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2009/04/13/the-18th-century-internet/ Blogs, social network sites, social software---and how to use all of these tools to become dramatically more successful Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:23:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: TimWalker http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2009/04/13/the-18th-century-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-631280 TimWalker Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:39:24 +0000 http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/2009/04/13/the-18th-century-internet#comment-631280 Thanks for the kind words, Scott -- and for making the connection to the Lunar Society.<br><br>We want to wrap our practices in the mantle of the New because the technology is new . . . but people have always wanted to make connections, and creative, ambitious, social people -- like the members of the Lunar Society -- have always wanted to exchange their ideas.<br><br>Twitter, blogs, etc. make all of this *easier* (we don't need the full moon to light our steps home), but the root impulse is the same. Thanks for the kind words, Scott — and for making the connection to the Lunar Society.

We want to wrap our practices in the mantle of the New because the technology is new . . . but people have always wanted to make connections, and creative, ambitious, social people — like the members of the Lunar Society — have always wanted to exchange their ideas.

Twitter, blogs, etc. make all of this *easier* (we don't need the full moon to light our steps home), but the root impulse is the same.

]]>