Us from the IT-and-new-media communities often feel quite pleased about being “on the edge of things”. We have the ‘net at our fingertips – the shiny netbook, the edgy phone, the niftiest tools. We master the medium. We feel like an elite (or l33t, if you will *cough*).

But sometimes it feels empty of anything meaningful. My father once said about an acquaintance:

“he’s able to spout platitudes in 12 languages”

Implying that speaking 12 languages was all very well, but language is just a way to convey meaning, and if you’ve got nothing to say, then it’s a waste of brain cells.

This is how I sometimes feel about this whole “revolution” that the internet represents. We’ve got a whole lot of tools to communicate with our peers, in sound, in video, in semantic tags. Great. But do we have something to say ?

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