Amanda – I hadn’t seen Adam’s ‘central dogma’ piece until just now reading Dan’s comment, but would agree with him that each post is unique despite their obviously shared interests. In any case, I’m learning not to be bothered by people who fail to “make more of the obvious connections between [our] thinking”…

Secondly, Amanda. Adam posted his ‘central dogma’ piece at pretty much the same time I posted ‘The street as platform’. Either way I didn’t see it ’till afterwards. Equally, there are quite different approaches in style, purpose and audience for our sites and thoughts – and both those pieces if you read carefully – even if we’re on the same side of the street as Adam rightly put it. I didn’t link to much theory at all in that post, you’ll have noticed, partly due to the audience it was written for (see caveat at top of post.)

So I very much value Adam’s thinking and contributions, we email each other pretty often, I’ll link to him for sure in a follow-up comment (and of course I’ve pre-ordered the book!), but I sometimes will look to ignore “obvious connections” and leave that to others. Ultimately, I guess it’s good that we’re all approaching this space from slightly different tangents, yes? (Of course, including Anne’s excellent thinking too.)