generational differences

You know you're getting old when...

...younger people discover the benefits of paper.

The printed pages were better then just looking at the digital versions, since we could code on our laptops while looking at the printouts, compare different pages, sit around pages and discuss and have all this goodness at our fingertips.

My respects to Drupal developer Gábor Hojtsy for his good reminder on the benefits of non-technology in the things that we do.  I'm hoping this post leads to some Friday fun here in the comments and also on Twitter.

You know you're getting old when...

Wow, Venkatesh G. Rao writes the article of the year, Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War.  I'm going to have to reread this article and do some reflection before I have anything of value to add.  Please do yourself a favor and read this article.

Note: Social Media, Social Publishing, Social Technology.  I wish we could all settle on the same term.