I sent an email to a friend this morning asking for help thinking of technology people who meet a particular parameter, you know, along the lines of “Do you know any techies who ____?” Unfortunately, my friend forwarded my hastily written mail to about 20 people who might also be able to fill in the blank.

One of those twenty mentioned Metcalfe’s Law in her reply. Someone else talked about the need to supplement that law in order to understand a different aspect of social dynamics. Someone else commented, contradicted, expanded…

Now those 20 people — strangers — are engaged in a conversation about social network dynamics.

This leads me to a conclusion: The Web is more social than I am.