Dyalogues is about getting people to talk - deeply and meaningfully. Not poking, not pinging, not IMing - we’re talking about a rich and expressive conversation, the sort of communication that is common in the offline world, but can be difficult to find online, oddly.

A couple of things I read this past week suggested we were on the same wavelength with a couple of provocative, insightful folks:

• someone I talked to said that he teased Robert Scoble for occasionally publishing blog posts with deliberately provocative titles; the Scobleizer responded, “it gets people talking”
• in a recent blog post, Scoble wrote that “The real thing I’ve been doing for more than eight years now is to try to arrange my life so that I have an interesting conversation every day with someone interesting.”
• I read a review of Morgan Spurlock’s Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? in The Economist. It had a great quote: “For Mr Spurlock, conversation is the opposite of war while people refusing to communicate is something to fear.”
• In an interview with Screen Goblin, Spurlock states, “[Filming the movie] really hit home on a different level for me sitting down and talking to people face-to-face, rather than seeing people yell about it on TV. When you’re there - you’re sitting down, or you’re at a table, or you’re in someone’s house and they’re telling you face-to-face and you can’t change the channel, you can’t go into the other room - it gives you a completely new perspective.”

We couldn’t agree more.