Proto Social Network 'The Well' Runneth Over


	Proto Social Network 'The Well' Runneth Over

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1-14-2008 6:23 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2a334d3e-4d91-4b2c-aca9-5b3e175ea685/165E829D-AC3B-4976-8798-E9FA97E3595A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-01/st_15thewell" href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-01/st_15thewell" style="font-size: 11px;">www.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-01/st_15thewell"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/6B546E34-F48D-4B5E-970C-715470ADB8DD" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-01/st_15thewell"><STRONG>Long before Myspace and Facebook</STRONG>, there was The Well, a freewheeling forum launched in 1985 as a dialup BBS. In a 22,000-word cover story in issue 5.05, <EM>Wired</EM> called it "a model for the future of sophisticated networked systems." With 4,000 members, it's still going strong. We asked founders Stewart Brand (president of the Long Now Foundation) and Larry Brilliant (executive director of Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org) what made The Well so deep.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-01/st_15thewell"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/6F61B607-0293-44E0-94E1-4946157DCCD9" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-01/st_15thewell"><STRONG>Brand:</STRONG> One thing that we insisted on was no anonymity. Lots of the systems now like anonymity or encourage it</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-01/st_15thewell"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.wired.com/img/4380B539-FF89-4F92-B1E5-89641FE4F7A8" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-01/st_15thewell"><STRONG>Brilliant:</STRONG> You say what you want, and you're responsible for it. That idea allowed people to think very deeply about the world.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/165E829D-AC3B-4976-8798-E9FA97E3595A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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