<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/91afe8e8-e407-4ea1-9946-89d69cf66417/D419928C-DB37-4996-859F-445A5D207A7A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.howardowens.com/2007/people-treat-the-web-as-a-communications-medium/" href="http://www.howardowens.com/2007/people-treat-the-web-as-a-communications-medium/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.howardowens.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.howardowens.com/2007/people-treat-the-web-as-a-communications-medium/"><DIV id="post-1614" class="post"> <H2><A title="Permanent Link to People treat the web as a communications medium" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.howardowens.com/2007/people-treat-the-web-as-a-communications-medium/">People treat the web as a communications medium</A></H2> <DIV class="entry"> <P>Via <A href="http://www.timporter.com/firstdraft/archives/000575.html" target="_blank">Tim Porter</A>, great quote from Jay Small:</p> <BLOCKQUOTE><P>“We tend to treat the internet as an information and distribution medium. Most consumers treat it as a communication medium.”</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Previously: <A href="http://www.howardowens.com/2007/get-out-of-the-content-business-become-the-platform/" target="_blank">Get out of the content business; become the platform.</A> </p> <DIV class="sociable"><SPAN class="sociable_tagline"><STRONG>Share and Enjoy:</STRONG><SPAN>These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.</SPAN></SPAN><UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="NewsVine" href="http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u=http://www.howardowens.com/2007/people-treat-the-web-as-a-communications-medium/&h=People+treat+the+web+as+a+communications+medium"><IMG alt="NewsVine" src="http://www.howardowens.com/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/newsvine.png" /></A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="digg" href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http://www.howardowens.com/2007/people-treat-the-web-as-a-communications-medium/&title=People+treat+the+web+as+a+communications+medium"><IMG alt="digg" src="http://www.howardowens.com/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/digg.png" /></A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="Furl" href="http://www.furl.net/storeIt.jsp?u=http://www.howardowens.com/2007/people-treat-the-web-as-a-communications-medium/&t=People+treat+the+web+as+a+communications+medium"><IMG alt="Furl" src="http://www.howardowens.com/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/furl.png" /></A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="TailRank" href="http://tailrank.com/share/?text=&link_href=http://www.howardowens.com/2007/people-treat-the-web-as-a-communications-medium/&title=People+treat+the+web+as+a+communications+medium"><IMG alt="TailRank" src="http://www.howardowens.com/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/tailrank.png" /></A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="Ma.gnolia" href="http://ma.gnolia.com/beta/bookmarklet/add?url=http://www.howardowens.com/2007/people-treat-the-web-as-a-communications-medium/&title=People+treat+the+web+as+a+communications+medium&description=People+treat+the+web+as+a+communications+medium"><IMG alt="Ma.gnolia" src="http://www.howardowens.com/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/magnolia.png" /></A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="Simpy" href="http://www.simpy.com/simpy/LinkAdd.do?href=http://www.howardowens.com/2007/people-treat-the-web-as-a-communications-medium/&title=People+treat+the+web+as+a+communications+medium"><IMG alt="Simpy" src="http://www.howardowens.com/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/simpy.png" /></A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="del.icio.us" href="http://del.icio.us/post?url=http://www.howardowens.com/2007/people-treat-the-web-as-a-communications-medium/&title=People+treat+the+web+as+a+communications+medium"><IMG alt="del.icio.us" src="http://www.howardowens.com/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/delicious.png" /></A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="Reddit" href="http://reddit.com/submit?url=http://www.howardowens.com/2007/people-treat-the-web-as-a-communications-medium/&title=People+treat+the+web+as+a+communications+medium"><IMG alt="Reddit" src="http://www.howardowens.com/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/reddit.png" /></A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="Spurl" href="http://www.spurl.net/spurl.php?url=http://www.howardowens.com/2007/people-treat-the-web-as-a-communications-medium/&title=People+treat+the+web+as+a+communications+medium"><IMG alt="Spurl" src="http://www.howardowens.com/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/spurl.png" /></A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="YahooMyWeb" href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u=http://www.howardowens.com/2007/people-treat-the-web-as-a-communications-medium/&=People+treat+the+web+as+a+communications+medium"><IMG alt="YahooMyWeb" src="http://www.howardowens.com/wp-content/plugins/sociable/images/yahoomyweb.png" /></A></LI> </UL></DIV> </DIV> <P class="postmetadata">Posted in <A rel="category tag" title="View all posts in Media" href="http://www.howardowens.com/category/media/">Media</A> March 30th, 2007 by Howard Owens | </p> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D419928C-DB37-4996-859F-445A5D207A7A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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