<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear HW and other impressive commentators, <div>I follow your reasoning with some clarity until I get to <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><httpRequest>, the key to the point you are making. It isn't obvious to me what it means since I</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">have never programmed nor have I deeply immersed myself in social media--I do what I can to the avoid </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">vertical extraction of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">my </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">diurnal cycle. With enough sleuthing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "> I might find out for myself how </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><httpRequest> works to create a hole that makes Web 2.0 possible</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; ">, but it makes me wonder if you are targeting an exclusive audience for whom terms and acronyms you throw around are self-evident or something more. There are lots of other things an acronym could mean in my brain. Is there any way to make a sense of inclusion beyond your normal circles more possible?</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">I was very intrigued earlier by the discussion of gender issues and labor. I know enough of Arlie Hochschild's work to think that the framing our discussion as a question of labor and hyperemployment is a narrow way to look at questions of work per se. Unfortunately, I can't expand on this now because I am under a deadline--probably like everyone else--and by the time I have prepared my response, the conversation will have moved so far ahead, it won't be relevant, or so I found in prior discussions. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">I am sympathetic with Cynthia and the problem of doing something "productive" at interstitial moments--but isn't that productivity per se defining our diurnal cycle? As an (ex-) East German sociologist friend of mine said, what disturbs her about the current discourse in her field is the assumption that a job is the source of value and validation of human beings per se.</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "> Kevin asks, "'</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">Is to be 'hyperemployed' to be 'doing work people like me shouldn't be doing?" </span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">Kevin's comment that </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">"if we describe a standard of acceptable labor primarily in terms of compensation/visibility, isn't that [slave labor] where we end up?" reminds me </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">of a professor complaining decades ago when computers were becoming a necessity for academics, that his workload had expanded dramatically to the point of exploitation, because he was not longer able to dictate his ideas to a secretary who would transform them into shorthand and type them up to perfection. Of course the gender and class assumptions in his attitude are striking today.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "> </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4">Getting back to my first point, I would appreciate attention to who will be reading this when you compose ideas in terms that self-evident to you and don't make it harder than necessary to parse, unless you don't care.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4">Margaret </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div> </div></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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