Thank you Simon, excellent link! The Authors of my link, are also the Authors of "The Cluetrain Manifesto", which is an interesting read as well.
The book and the http://worldofends.com/ website attempts to highlight (and remind us) that the Internet was invented for the express purpose of sharing information. And that the medium for this sharing should be, and works best, through "conversation" - which implies a 2-way (or more) exchange of information and opinions. The Authors then attempt to point out that failure on the Internet is likely imminent when the "conversation" stops being 2-way and the Internet is reduced (and exploited) as a 1-way propaganda machine by individuals and big business. Which is why I thought the website might be of interest to those hoping to establish (or reinvigorate) their web-presense (for both personal and/or commerical efforts). The "Guest Opinion" provided by Bill Thompson in your linked article, and the opinions in my linked article, I think are actually very, very similar on the issue on how the Internet is sometimes used - but their solutions to the issue are very wide apart. It could be viewed that one person's "protection", is another person's of loss of "freedom". These are interesting and challenging times we live in - no doubt about that :-) Cheers....... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Boddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 11:07 AM Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] Repetitive Mistake Syndrome > Hi, > Readers interested in the issues of free speach, control of the net etc: for an opposite point of view, take a look at Bill Thompson's "Damn the Constitution, Europe must take back the web". > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26612.html > > Regards, Simon. > -- > _______________________________________________ > Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net > > Powered by Outblaze > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
