Bruce Sterling on Ning

How many &&^$$@%^&$ times in my life have I been through this early-adapter shuffle? The opportunity costs, the cognitive loading… the *pain* of all that…. I just now bothered to blog-embed a *&^%&%$ youtube video, and now look at THIS.

Pesky Scoble! He’s like one geek with a damn camera! There used to be *whole thick bureaucratic and financial and economic and social and personal layers of insulation* between tech startups and the general populace… I mean, people like La Bianchini there, they sure existed — but you didn’t get *pitchforked right into her lap*… What happened to the #$@$%# lagtime and market-friction?!

Those *&&%$$ blogger revolutionaries! They’re worse than the 90s dot-com boomers! They’re more disruptive. They’re violently disruptive. They are not just kiting stocks, they are really tearing into the fabric of reality. What a thing to see.

I recently advised a friend not to set up Ning for their new book project because it would become YASN (Yet Another Social Network) that would go through the cycle of cool early adopters to loser-packed wannabe station in three months. Just set up a damn mailing list and disband it to the invisible CC: list social network when the jerks arrive.

YEHAW