{"id":6954,"date":"2017-08-02T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6954"},"modified":"2017-07-10T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T15:27:36","slug":"linked-the-weird-thing-about-todays-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/linked-the-weird-thing-about-todays-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;The Weird Thing About Today&#8217;s Internet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2774,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.theatlantic.com\\\/please-support-us\\\/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Ftechnology%2Farchive%2F2017%2F05%2Fa-very-brief-history-of-the-last-10-years-in-technology%2F526767%2F#seen&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/please-support-us\/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Ftechnology%2Farchive%2F2017%2F05%2Fa-very-brief-history-of-the-last-10-years-in-technology%2F526767%2F#seen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via The Atlanti<\/a>c (which works great to read in Instapaper but not on your browser if you have ad-blockers installed)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>O\u2019Reilly\u2019s lengthy description of the principles of Web 2.0 has become more fascinating through time. It seems to be describing a slightly parallel universe. \u201cHyperlinking is the foundation of the web,\u201d O\u2019Reilly wrote. \u201cAs users add new content, and new sites, it is bound into the structure of the web by other users discovering the content and linking to it. Much as synapses form in the brain, with associations becoming stronger through repetition or intensity, the web of connections grows organically as an output of the collective activity of all web users.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nowadays, (hyper)linking is an afterthought because most of the action occurs within platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and messaging apps, which all have carved space out of the open web. And the idea of \u201charnessing collective intelligence\u201d simply feels much more interesting and productive than it does now. The great cathedrals of that time, nearly impossible projects like Wikipedia that worked and worked well, have all stagnated. And the portrait of humanity that most people see filtering through the mechanics of Facebook or Twitter does not exactly inspire confidence in our social co-productions.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via The Atlantic (which works great to read in Instapaper but not on your browser if you have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-08-02T15:24:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"3e256289-eedc-482a-a6e4-fe7be2be115c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-08-02T15:24:22Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/APiViie7cSCqm5P574r4RXA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Oa","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7342,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/03\/31\/linked-why-facebook-is-so-addictive-the-like-button\/","url_meta":{"origin":6954,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Why Facebook is so addictive: the Like button&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Philip Greenspun's Weblog \u00bb Why Facebook is so addictive: the Like button: It\u2019s hard to exaggerate how much the \u201clike\u201d button changed the psychology of Facebook use. 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