Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

I actually like Alan Levine's comment at the end of this article better than the article itself, but the article is fine. Jay Hoffmann writes, "My point is, each time the open web is attacked, fragments of it survive and persist. Berners-Lee designed the web with a lot of hope and optimism, but he wasn't blind to the cynics." Levine writes, "I'm with ya on the fight and stand for this open web, but hardly think that collectively the 'netizens' are just hapless victims of some warlords. The web slides towards end game when we abandon it in favor of the web megamalls, when we stop making and adding to the web ourselves." That's why I'm still writing my own content on my of software that I wrote myself.

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