Old School Vs Web 2.0

The outlandish comment storm surrounding Scoble’s Immigration post, reminds me of a feature that the old school “discussion boards” (how quaint does that sound to you sWANKy 2.0 hipsters?) or my fave NNTP protocol, had; which is the threaded discussion.

In a comment he posted to the Winextra blog, Scoble made the statement:

This medium is about conversations, not one-way messages.

Well, conversations tend to meander along at their own pace, and the attention span of the 2.0 generation is remarkably short, so it seems somewhat as a surprise that web fora (or is it forums- which seems far less pretentious, but somehow wrong…) and blogs/blog comments don’t have some way to thread their circuitous path, keeping point and counterpoint cleverly grouped.

Perhaps the light-speed attention span of the average 2.0er is beyond even composing a clever rebuttal to the OP (that’s original post for you non-nntp types).

Which all just goes to prove the wisdom behind this old school newsgroup saying in the picture.

5,000 people read my webpost and 4500 of them trackedback to them in rebuttal of what a complete nonsense it was.  This makes me an influencer…

Yeah right…