HW 14: Ito Transitionrama

As an illustration for all the readers of this blog, about 125,00 people visit Joi Ito's blog each and every month. Hence the fact that his first blog appeared in 1994, many people have become interested. That is, this has become a meeting place for people in the blogging atmosphere to elaborate their views. By contrast Joi is "involved in helping to shape global public policy when it comes to web-related issues" (Page 143).
Accordingly, he starts most of his blog posts as questions and they then lead to a dialogue. Along the same lines he talks about merely anything that expands his knowledge. Admittedly, Joi named his blog Joi Ito's Web, because it is like saying that he owns that blog and has to maintain it so be respectful. Granted that people pay money for some of their creative blogs and they do not charge people to view them, by this point people are more interested in what one another has to say. To put it bluntly "the consumer is now becoming the product" (Page 145). Nonetheless, Ito has compared this to folk music he states"we are now in a period where we are in a very constrained, narrow, mass communication method-television, newspapers-where you can try to tune the whole world into a very narrow band" (page 145). Along the same lines he is trying to say that people are all trying to fit in and like the same kinds of things, but is that very possible? Conversely this allows people to find different communities and people with the same (true) desires as you.