I m a bit of an empath, and as I get older, it gets more difficult for me to withstand the crushing energy generated by people leaking karma. I get overwhelmed, so I keep a safe distance from the madness of crowds. But I could not miss this for the world. It was a chance for me to meet a lot of folks I knew only through email, like Kenn Thomas, Adam Parfrey, and others. If it had not been for a small article in the local Fairfield County Weekly in the Connecticut suburbs where I live, writing about an upcoming conspiracy conference in New York City, I would have never known about it in time to make it.
Websites are like that.
You go to them once when you discover their existence, spend some time there for a little while, and then forget they even existed. There is seldom a reason to go back. There is just so much on the Net to keep up with, so if you re going to stay informed, you tend to plow ahead, seldom really attaching yourself to any one news source. That s the next step for online journalism. Unlike print, cyber pages are not inked in stone.