Originally posted as a comment to @digiphile's "The role of the Internet as a platform for collective action grows" > http://bit.ly/fD8eZR <:

<a href="http://twitter.com/digiphile/status/28542473978519552">Your tweet</a> "We have;…overestimated the value of access to info & underestimated the value of access to one another"-@cshirky" brings to mind why I started working on "discourse-based decision support" back in '75: it's the subjective narrative that gives communications their human meaning. (Cog-psych 101, yes?)

So when people manifest profound dis-interest in "promoting the personal perspective while attending to our best knowledge and mitigating against noisy trolls" I appreciate the reality of that communicative gesture.
Folk show what they care about. When what they say doesn't accord with what they actualize? Well ... even that is a communicative gesture and should be taken as such. Unless one is engaged in "attention economy", in which case all bets are off.

To energize collective intelligence …
… to magnetize the wisdom of crowds.
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Thinking together about what is crucial …
… speaking deeply about simple things.

When stuff like that elicits 0 response year after year, I get a pretty clear picture of where folk are /really/.

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