July 03, 2004

What about Starbucks?

Picking up from Laura's comparision of the blogosphere to a town hall meeting, Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber wonders if it is perhaps more like eighteenth-century coffeehouses in its diversity. Relative diversity, for as Henry points out, the rubbing of shoulders was limited to the male bourgeoise.

Last year Brian Micklethwait reproduced an article from The Economist which links coffeehouses to the internet.
My student's page on coffeehouses.

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