Daniel Tenner:

Everyone is talking about the "real-time web". That's usually a pretty strong indication of a buzzword that will soon mean very little.

Benjamin Friedman:

These talented and energetic young citizens could surely be doing something more useful.

Maggie Jackson:

Despite our wondrous technologies and scientific advances, we are nurturing a culture of diffusion, fragmentation, and detachment. In this new world, something crucial is missing -- attention.

Paul Carr:

If we all started thinking a bit more like friends, and a bit less like attention whores, the privacy problem would be solved at a stroke.

The questionable value of the real-time web