Interesting conversation with writer/thinker/consultant, Venkatesh Rao —drifting from Silicon Valley as its own (well-developed) epistemic-sociological space to the responsibility of “bloggers” [def: writers without the mediating force of editors who know more about the audience] to keep the Internet a lively and productive intellectual space.

Venkatesh Rao is the founder of Ribbonfarm and the author of Breaking Smart.

Click the image below to listen. [Via the always intriguing Longform Podcast]