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Technorati this week passed the one billion link mark, a number that causes databases to groan and commentators to stare in awe. Will Richardson: "One. Billion. Pieces of Writing. You can't deny the power of that." 8,586 of those are mine - the total number of OLDaily posts. Edu_RSS, meanwhile, has just passed the 90,000 link mark. Richardson writes, "Douglas Rushkoff calls it the "Society of Authorship" this new era that we are entering, and I like that phrase a lot. But I also like Sun Microsystems' CEO Jonathan Schwartz's description too: "The Participation Age."

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