Jim pointed me at this NYT article on Twitter.

“Twitter reverses the notion of the group,” said Paul Saffo, the Silicon Valley futurist. “Instead of creating the group you want, you send it and the group self-assembles.”

I think I know why this is happening. I could follow maybe 30 blogs. Every day or two, there would be slab of content from each one, and I’d sort of keep an eye on things. Twitter comes along, and the number of people I can keep in touch with goes up by a factor of about ten. I think this takes us past a critical point in our global interconnectedness. With a few hundred people that I’m regularly in contact with, I can post all kinds of diverse thoughts, and some people in that broad network will find it useful or relevant or surprising. If I need help, somebody knows who I should be asking. That jump – from a few dozen blogs, to a few hundred twitter streams – takes us across into a new domain of interconnected thinking.

One step closer.