"the network is the marketplace.''

'It's the whole golf and business thing," Mr. Scott
said. "Or the water cooler in business, where you have
those soft interaction points. People connect as
people, not just as business entities."'
"soft interaction points" - where new media cushions
the impact between demands and desires…
anyway, this is kind of interesting in a tangential
way to Alex's book excerpt and notions of control via
protocol.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/09/technology/09ecom.html?th

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