Perhaps it was the hand of God?

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Clay Shirky has dealt with many of the same topics that David Weinberger writes about in his latest book. I tend to read whatever Shirky writes - at least in his blog and his articles. And that raises the rather unavoidable question of why is it, if I really do read what Shirky writes, that only while working on this column did I stumble upon an article he wrote a couple of years ago (an article which I'm quite sure I'd previously seen, but certainly hadn't bookmarked, as I logically would have) that wonderfully deals with these issues. If I reject arguments of intelligent design, it would seem that the next most convincing argument would be that the fact that I was trying to write about similar issues sensitized me to materials that I might otherwise have passed over.

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