{"id":50943,"date":"2003-02-28T17:27:47","date_gmt":"2003-02-28T17:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2003\/02\/28\/ripples-from-davos\/"},"modified":"2003-02-28T17:27:47","modified_gmt":"2003-02-28T17:27:47","slug":"ripples-from-davos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2003\/02\/28\/ripples-from-davos-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripples from Davos\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis is an interesting situation<\/a> for a number of reasons. It brings up all
\nsorts of issues, from the ultra wealthy to global economics, pithy commentary
\nand how private email spreads itself around the world. All very amusing, and
\nsomething to think about. More importantly maybe, the spread of this discussion
\nand the original information is a good way to look at how self referential the
\nemerging free flowing information web is – and how it can also spread
\ninformation. There is lots<\/i><\/b> more so follow along…<\/p>\n

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Anyway, the story apparently goes like this:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Laurie Garret<\/a>
    \n attends the [[wp:World_Economic_Forum|WEF]] at [[wp:Davos]] and sends off an
    \n ‘informal’ email to a few people… how many is unknown.<\/li>\n
  2. The email makes it’s way to a
    \n
    \n Topica list<\/a> discussing [[wp:psychohistory]] in a post by Adam Davis a
    \n ‘friend of a friend’ separation from Laurie. The link to the
    \n
    \n specific message<\/a> may be broken by now.<\/li>\n
  3. A link to that post
    \n
    \n finds it’s way to MetaFilter<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. Insanity ensues as people comment and the story spreads…<\/li>\n
  5. Laurie then
    \n
    \n responds angrily to the MeFi thread<\/a> in an email to ‘    beagle<\/a>‘.<\/li>\n
  6. All hell breaks loose again.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    From here on, the exact order is hard to keep track of, so I’ll just list the
    \nplaces you can continue gathering information or participating in discussion.<\/p>\n