5/8/2005
The Digital Divide and the Chasm Beyond
I actually don’t read Seth Godin all that much. There are a lot of people I don’t read regularly. That’s the nice thing about the net. There’s so much that you really don’t have to be one of the lemmings reading what everyone else is reading, saying what everyone else is saying, and thinking what everyone else is thinking. Seth’s post The New Digital Divide seemed to get a lot of positive reaction, so I thought I’d offer a slightly varying view. While it’s accurate to some extent, it’s pretty yesterday in oh so many painful ways.
| The Other Side of the Chasm | The Digerati | The Left Behind |
| A browser’s a browser’s a browser. | Uses Firefox | Uses Internet Explorer |
| Used to read Doc when he had lots of new things to say | Knows who Doc Searls is | Already has a doctor, thanks very much |
| Yawn. Technology is just a tool | Uses RSS Reader | RSS? |
| Yawn. Technology is just a tool | Has a blog | Reads blogs (sometimes) |
| Reads Getting Things Done tips all over | Reads BoingBoing (or Slashdot) | Watches the Tonight Show |
| Didn’t bother flicking | Bored with Flickr | Flickr? |
| Yawn. Even podcrappping can be news. It’s just a medium. | Gets news from Google | Gets news from Peter Jennings |
And overall, none of this is very important.
Filed by Ken at 7:38 am under General
It’s important to me because I laughed and LIKED it! (your chart–not my laughing. well that too).
Who is Seth Godin?