{"id":2472,"date":"2003-03-07T04:09:27","date_gmt":"2003-03-07T04:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2003-03-07T04:09:27","modified_gmt":"2003-03-07T04:09:27","slug":"world_of_ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2472","title":{"rendered":"World of Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/2003\/03\/07#makeNoMistake\">Doc Searls<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/mtarchive\/001272.html\"> David Weinberger<\/a> have written an article called <a href=\"http:\/\/worldofends.com\/\">World of Ends<\/a>.  It&#8217;s about what the Internet is and isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>All we need to do is pay attention to what the Internet really is. It&#8217;s not hard. The Net isn&#8217;t rocket science. It isn&#8217;t even 6th grade science fair, when you get right down to it. We can end the tragedy of Repetitive Mistake Syndrome in our lifetimes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and save a few trillion dollars\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 worth of dumb decisions \u00e2\u20ac\u201d if we can just remember one simple fact: the Net is a world of ends. You&#8217;re at one end, and everybody and everything else are at the other ends.[<a href=\"http:\/\/worldofends.com\/\">World of Ends<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting read.  I think Dr. Weinberger is someone who really gets the internet, more than most people out there.  I highly recommend his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0738205435\/lifelistedchr-20\"><br \/>\nSmall Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web<\/a>.  While I don&#8217;t know that I agree with everything he says, I think he&#8217;s on target with most of it.  This article is no exception.  The question I have is, how come the big companies don&#8217;t get it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Searls and David Weinberger have written an article called World of Ends. It&#8217;s about what the Internet is and isn&#8217;t. All we need to do is pay attention to what the Internet really is. It&#8217;s not hard. The Net isn&#8217;t rocket science. It isn&#8217;t even 6th grade science fair, when you get right down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}