They told me I would find presents, but I guess I misunderstood. 

 

:)

 

Honestly, there’s a fascinating conversation going on regarding the ongoing evolution of the terms “presence” and "relevance" and in fact what that terms mean to each of us, individually, in a given context, at a given time, etc…

 

It’s something we should all be aware of — and by “we” I mean the press, the bloggers, the thinkers and framers of the conversation — and we need to massage this technology, and use it and bend it and twist it and try to break it. Then we need to build it up again and do it all over again until it becomes something that becomes easy enough for Mom to use. (My mom only recently joined the e-mail “revolution” albeit she types the ‘letters’ and asks my dad to ‘send’ them.)

 

Andy does a great job distilling some of what’s going on in this most recent dialogue. Follow the links to Ken’s and Brough’s thoughts and of course back to Alec’s original thesis.

 

These bright folks are all leading us in the right direction, and you would be doing yourself a service if you took a closer look.