Your view of the internet is probably tempered by whether you consider yourself a ‘Suit’ or a ‘Geek’ or as in my case somewhere in between. David Weinberger, yes him again, highlights many of the mistakes the ‘suits’ make at The World of Ends co written with Doc Searls. I wonder if Doc is his first name or his job?
To paraphrase Weinberger and Searls you should bear the following in mind.
The Internet isn’t complicated.
The Internet isn’t a thing. It’s an agreement.
The Internet is stupid.
Adding value to the Internet lowers its value.
All the Internets value is at the edges.
The Internet has three values.
1. No one owns it
2. Everyone can use it
3. Anyone can improve it
Well that all makes sense to me. The Internet is just a means to deliver stuff from one end to end to the other and if you want to sod about do it at the edges not in the middle. In the ‘Suits’ vs ‘Geeks’ debate this is aimed at the ‘Suits’ but many ‘Geeks’ don’t understand this either.
Monday, April 14, 2003
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