Give that man/woman a cigar!

Someone using the nickname Windbag posted an excellent and insightful comment in response to Children of the Web, from BusinessWeek.com. Here's an excerpt from that comment:

"The internet, agent of universalization, can just as easily be a tool of differentiation and individuation. The trick here will be to recognize that the new local will not necessarily be geographic. We see this already at the political level, where international Islamic communities of various stripes are building homes on the net. The same is happening in nonpolitical areas. The next commercial marketing wave will recognize and exploit these new communities."

Hell yes.