From our own (paper) correspondent

Just to echo something Fred Wilson noted that on his blog, the commenting is getting almost salon-like:

....there's this great back and forth between two frequent commenters about the bank panic of 1907 and JP Morgan's role in it. That's the kind of conversation that just didn't exist for most people pre-Internet. You could get it in college dorms, bars and coffee shops in the right towns and cities to some degree, but certainly not late at night in your pajamas in your studio apartment.

I think we are becoming a more literate and conversational society because of the internet. And the tools aren't there to fully leverage this activity.

Now Fred named his post "Correspondence Is Making A Comeback" and I wanted to note two other things I've read recently:

- Letter writing is making a comeback in this digital age
- Written CV's are seen as more valuable han email ones by some head hunters

(This maps to the Return of Vinyl in an mp3 world)

The game theory would argue that this is so as actually writing something has a higher transaction cost than banging off some digital text and hitting "send", and game theorists are keen on seeing "strong tells" - signs of strong commitment - in signalling intent.

The other thing I'd note, in London anyway, is that UK bloggers have been drawn to meet each other in person in te Coffee Shops of London (hence the Tuttle Club) and now even Micro-Bloggers are getting together (at Twinterval, hardly a micro-bash)