Transcending static v. dynamic

I'm in a meeting talking about using books to drive people to websites. I have some old school sensibilities that make me rebel against that.

We started discussing how Facebook creates a whole layer of meaning beyond print books. One person noted that they can read others' bookshelves and see their notes on their books. It has some interesting parallels to book clubs, with more to offer, and yet less. You can't have an embodied banter about a book, but at the same time, people are newly enabled to interact in a totally different way.

Traditional print vehicles are static. It's hard to update a book more than once a year. When you are participating in a book club, it's dynamic. You react to one another's thoughts in real time. If you note your thoughts on a book on a Facebook bookshelf, you supply static info. It stays hanging out there for anyone to interact with. Oddly enough, this becomes a new dynamism. The profile viewer interacts, and the poster can refine their thoughts. Yet there is always the static element. It's strange to me how web apps have been helping change our concepts of static and dynamic. They are now tightly fused, whereas the old style were much more opposites.