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The New Scarcity

Interesting thought: while many net-nerds talk about the new abundance of resources in the internet age, they’re quite happy to use artificial scarcity to promote their new social network, in the form of invite-only services. Discuss.

My name is Steve Ivy and I write about technology, the open web, social software, and general nerdity on monkinetic.com. You should follow me on Twitter or subscribe to this blog if you like what you're reading. I spend my days hacking Movable Type, python, Django, and various other efforts at Wallrazer. This is my personal site.