Possibly proof positive that the members of Orkut may be social-networks a priori of joining the online adjunct, a nifty geographic display of Orkut member locations showing the clustered majority are clearly close enough to go bowling.
[screenshot of the linked graphic below the fold in case it goes away].
Yup, the death of distance has been somewhat exaggerated.
I guess there is some overlap with the outsourcing/offshoring discussions I keep stumbling across. Where it’s relevant to me is that Seattle didn’t have the critical mass to sustain a high-tech economy as San Francisco or New York seems to have had, Portland even less so. So when the cash infusions stopped coming, businesses were shuttered and people faced the options of staying in the same geographic location and finding other work or voting with their feet (or a U-Haul trailer) and moving to where the work is. Perhaps the circus will come back to town someday.
