Media Perspective: A place of insightful thoughts longer than 140 characters.

I'll admit it: the internet isn't always the best place for quiet reflection and deep thought.

Fair enough. But it's second to nothing at spreading a quick, useful idea. The other week, for example, Alice Taylor - games-maker, thinker and blogger - wrote a post called '5 things I'm thinking right now' and, immediately, a bunch of the interesting, informed people who read Alice's blog realised that '5 things' was a neat little basis for a post and, in fairly short order, had written their own.

Dan Hon collected some of them together at http://bit.ly/bOZNnw. There are 16 people featured on that page, which gives you 80 provocative nuggets of thought from smart, …