Last week at Supernova I ended up sitting next to a guy who really knew how to flood the back channel (IRC) putting his own spin on things. Just before lunch I learned he was Tom Coates, who consistently writes a blog with a great point of view. Yesterday I discovered he had paraphrased nicely what I'd said:

"I ask people two questions - 'what's your skype strategy?' and 'what's your presence strategy?' - Skype moves your use of voice from telephony to a kind of intercom where rather than closing a line down you just temporarily mute it. The social net reflects a revolution in the way that we use our tools. There's always been a tension to use a communications technology to get things done, but now communications technologies are being used to connect, to create communities..." plasticbag.org