I am playing a bit of a punk to the wise elders of tech....Gavin and Michael.  I don't disagree with feelings of these riffs against walled gardens, lobster traps and annoying ads but I don't think the advice that emerges works.

I would suggest... 

Mayor Bloomberg talks about amazing new data traffic patterns guiding the development of web services for the city. Network building strategy is about creating feedback mechanisms so the network can learn from itself. Now NYC is heading down that path with 311 so we should see some amazing things in the next several months. From PDF

This came via email from PDF. It is a statistic that I use in presentations.  According to this the YouTube network is more active than I have been giving it credit for:

I continue to be amazed at the depth of network rituals developed by SDI.

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