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Like schools, like businesses, like governments, like nearly everyone, it seems, religious groups are rushing online, setting up church home pages, broadcasting dogma and establishing theological newsgroups, bulletin boards and chat rooms. Almost overnight, the electronic community of the Internet has come to resemble a high-speed spiritual bazaar, where thousands of the faithful--and equal numbers of the faithless--meet and debate and swap ideas about things many of us had long since stopped discussing in public, like our faith and religious beliefs. It's an astonishing act of technological and intellectual mainstreaming that is changing the character...
...those who graduated in the 20th century, it will be known forever as the Freshman Union, where all first-years went three times per day to eat their meals and chat with their classmates...
Still, the buzzword in cyberspace these days is community. Every Website must incorporate a place for people to chat--your newspaper, your favorite vodka, even the John (Entertainment Tonight) Tesh home page, whose virtual commons is called Tesh-Talk. Never mind that what passes for community online is mostly people typing cranky messages at each other. Community is the bankable truth of the moment...
...credit, Electric Minds tries hard. The place is seeded with voluble moderators who are paid to keep conversations lively. It uses nifty software that makes the chores of chat (editing, spell-checking, posting, filtering out bozos) easy. And it's free--subsidized by advertisers who know that folks tend to spend more time in bars and clubs than they do nose-deep in the Yellow Pages...
...lack of e-mail cripples communication within the University. It is similar to phone lines being down in the city. Yes, students can no longer chat, but even more importantly professors cannot get out needed course information and students cannot access it. Because more and more information is being communicated by e-mail, Harvard's technology needs to keep pace with...