Web 2.0 Ideas Have A Chirpy, Cheerful

Individual Web Pages As They First Appeared In The Early 1990s Had The Flavour Of Person-hood. Myspace Preserved Some Of That Flavour, Though A Process Of Regularized Formatting Had Begun. Facebook Went Further, Organizing People Into Multiple-choice Identities While Wikipedia Seeks To Erase Point Of View Entirely. If A Church Or Government Were Doing These Things, It Would Feel Authoritarian, But When Technologists Are The Culprits, We Seem Hip, Fresh, And Inventive. People Accept Ideas Presented In Technological Form That Would Be Abhorrent In Any Other Forms

Siren Servers Are Narcissists; Blind To Where Value Comes From, Including The Web Of Global Interdependence That Is At The Core Of Their Own Value.

A Market Economy Cannot Thrive Absent The Well-being Of Average People, Even In A Gilded Age.

I've Occasionally Been Wrong About Certain Things, Which Is In A Way More Delightful Than Being Right.

Why Do People Deserve A Penny When They Update Their Facebook Status? Because They'll Spend Some Of It On You.