Frank Kogan

"Nothing is under the radar" is a very big claim! Whose radar?

You beat me to it. I will resume observing from a distance.

Will say, though, that I do think that isolation plays a big role in certain stages of collective-idea-making. That is, I don't think (if we're talking about a message board) any consensus will ever be made purely through public talk -- along with slang and new terminology (and just plain "you aren't allowed" jive to mark territory), people have private correspondences much more easily than was once the case, too -- so in that way, you could say that PRIVATE bubbles can share ideas more easily, along with diverse, (more) public spaces. In a brief email exchange, I could clarify a few points I wondered about from this very column -- I think that your own impulse to drag private correspondence into public (or more public) arenas is a nice navigation of total isolation and RELATIVE isolation (i.e., you didn't post the exchange in the comments section at the Daily Kos or something).