If i can be excused replying to myself ....
 
> And it would be the ability to make the comparisons between
> forums, and sites and what they enable, which make them seem 
> like different kinds of 'locale' (to use the term I prefer :), 
> to an extent which is not the case with 'phone space' or 'TV space'
> where only a limited set of relatively uniform actitons are 
> possible.

Picked up Rheingold's smart mobs in a sale over the weekend,
and after reading the intro, thought - this kind of contact
is probably never going to be thought of as a 'space', in
people's lives, so why is that?

Provisional answer... Because it *is* integrated into their 
lives immediately.  
People use this stuff Rheingold is writing about as an extension 
of immediate life.

Perhaps we only think of cyber'space' because it is not yet 
integrated into our lives. It seems 'somewhere different'.  
It enables contacts, behaviour etc. which is not integrated 
into daily life completely. Its 'elswhere'.

When it becomes integrated, it will no longer seem to be 
another 'space'.

Just a thought.

jon 



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