19962013
The conservative view
"As I walk in, they're discussing the left-leaning echo chamber issue from yesterday's Digital Democracy day O'Reilly said that he sees absolutely no connection between this technology and the left. It will be used by all sides of all issues. Doc Searls, who was on the conference committee, said they tried to find some conservatives to join in but had difficulty finding them. O'Reilly conceded that conferences are put together by networks and this network of who-knows-whom happens to lean that way and thus finds those people."
Its not that conservatives are hard to find, its just that they are going to be, well ...a little more conservative adopters of new technologies. It doesn't really surprise me that they aren't jumping all over the technology du jour, but I wish they would
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