I can't find on dlww my note ~ two years ago? ~ re forums about televsion as where find conversation. maybe that was before dlww? just in an email to myself, since lost in a hotmail evacuation? maybe shortly after acquired the tv. had a qstn about DespHousewives plot, found discussion in a ~soap opera forum. liked comments by someone whose namehandle was sth about 'pop' I think...
[why handles? why on the internet did people not just use their names, if not their own actual names then sth still that looks like a name?]

searching dlww for "conversation", did find (in post linking to essays of You've Got Blog book maro # 8/03/2005 12:45PM):
The Internet is not killing off conversation by Douglas Rushkoff. Guardian, 2000:
Sure, the internet allows people to post their own content or make their own web sites.But what do most people really do with this opportunity? They share the social currency they have collected through their lives, in the form of Brittney Spears fan sites or collections of illegally gathered MP3's of popular songs. The myth of the internet - and one I believed for a long time - is that most people really want to share the stories of their own lives. The fact that "content is king" proves that they don't. They need images, stories, ideas, and sounds through which they can relate to one another. The only difference between the internet and its media predecessors is that the user can both collect and share bcs internet is both read and write social currency in the same environment. Those of you who think you are creating online content, take note: your success will be directly dependent on your ability to create excuses well - ways, opportunities for people to talk to one another. For the real measure of content's quality is its ability to serve as a medium.