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Howard Rheingold talks about the WeLL (http://www.well.com)


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http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=160489198&m=160489358

I don't know if many of you know about the well, but it's where I got my ideas about what community can be like online. It's a "hippier" version of what I've aimed to create here. Howard Rheingold is one of the great visionaries of online community, and he gives an interesting, short interview about the well. It's now for sale, but I imagine it will end up disappearing, and that will be a sad day.

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^ Related, and indeed covering the Well was the (BBC) Radio 4 Series The Secret History Of Social Networking

Episode 1 (of 3) Covers the early days

Interviewees include:

Lee Felsenstein, co-founder, Community Memory

Larry Brilliant, co-founder, The WELL

Stewart Brand, co-founder The WELL

Howard Rheingold, early WELL user, author of The Virtual Community

John Perry Barlow, early WELL user, co-founder Electronic Frontier Foundation

Marc Weber, founding curator, Computer History Museum

Andrew Weinrich, founder, SixDegrees.com

Jonathan Abrams, co-founder, Friendster

Good article on Episode 1 : Hackers and Hippies

Available for download as podcasts.

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