Dan Gillmore's post for 01/09/03 lifted entire:
The Read-Write Web
Dave Winer's First (DaveNet) Essay of the Year is about many things, but it may boil down best to what he says in the first section:
" The Web uniquely wants to be used by everyone, not just for the purposes of big companies and their profits and paranoia. This is a foundation that I think we agree on."
It's a fine summary of how what he calls the "Two Way Web" is evolving. I think of it as the multi-directional Web, but the idea is the same. And the bottom line is that it's coming along brilliantly due to the tools he and other programmers and engineers have been developing in recent months and years.
I believe this is the year when the pieces will truly come together. We are seeing the rebirth of what Tim Berners-Lee envisioned when he created the Web in the first place.
The enemies of this vision are going to fight all the way.
Slide34a.jpg This is a slide I use in presentations, showing how Hollywood views the Web. It always gets a snicker. But its message is serious.
Hollywood and the other members of the entertainment cartel do not believe in a two-way or multi-directional Web. They believe they are sending their content to consumers, not customers who want to build their own content or, crucially, communities.
Dave Winer is an ally of the people who don't want a small group of powerful interests to control our communications. As a new year begins, I thank them all.
The Internet is Read-Write, not Read-Only
