{"id":2461,"date":"2011-03-17T17:40:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T23:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2011-03-17T17:47:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T23:47:58","slug":"the-internet-is-not-a-community-its-just-a-hall-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=2461","title":{"rendered":"The Internet is not a community, it&#8217;s only a community hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Not long ago, according to the new-media guru Clay Shirky, the Sudanese government set up a Facebook page call ing for a protest against the Sudanese government, naming a specific time and place \u2013 then simply arrested those who showed up. It was proof, Shirky argues, that social media can&#8217;t be revolutionary on its own. &#8220;The reason that worked is that nobody knew anybody else,&#8221; he says. &#8220;They thought Facebook itself was trustworthy.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2011\/mar\/15\/sxsw-2011-internet-online?CMP=twt_gu\">the Guardian article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, according to the new-media guru Clay Shirky, the Sudanese government set up a Facebook page call ing for a protest against the Sudanese government, naming a specific time and place \u2013 then simply arrested those who showed up. It was proof, Shirky argues, that social media can&#8217;t be revolutionary on its own. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}