links for 2006-03-06

• FT.com / Arts & Weekend - Time for the last post
  "Blogging is the closest literary culture has come to instant obsolescence. No Modern Library edition of the great polemicists of the blogosphere to yellow on the shelf; nothing but a virtual tomb for a billion posts." Off-base, but worth reading.
  (tags: blogs analysis economics media+evolution influence+ecology mainstream+media media history business publishing journalism trends shortsighted writing)
• Conversation is NOT Enough (Publishing 2.0)
  "Blog conversations remind me a lot of conferences and committee meetings — lot’s of great conversation and discussion, and maybe some promising ideas, but little if any synthesis, summary, or follow-up." Agreed. I'm guilty of this too.
  (tags: conversation conversational+media coherence benefits blogs comments media+evolution relationship+building problem+solving)