“We are so desperate to have our voices back that we are willing to leap into the void. We embrace the Web not knowing what it is, but hoping that it will burn the org chart — if not the organization — down to the ground. Released from the gray-flannel handcuffs, we say anything, curse like sailors, rhyme like bad poets, flame against our own values, just for the pure delight of having a voice.
And when the thrill of hearing ourselves speak again wears off, we will begin to build a new world.
That is what the Web is for.”
— Dave Weinberger, writing in 1999 in an essay entitled The Longing, referenced by Doc Searls in a post on his belief that ” Newspapers are an endangered institutional species that it is critically important to save, and to improve”–and that Sam Zell may be worth a listen.
“We are so desperate to have our voices back that we are willing to leap into the void. We embrace the Web not knowing what it is, but hoping that it will burn the org chart — if not the organization — down to the ground. Released from the gray-flannel handcuffs, we say anything, curse like sailors, rhyme like bad poets, flame against our own values, just for the pure delight of having a voice.
And when the thrill of hearing ourselves speak again wears off, we will begin to build a new world.
That is what the Web is for.”
— Dave Weinberger, writing in 1999 in an essay entitled The Longing, referenced by Doc Searls in a post on his belief that ” Newspapers are an endangered institutional species that it is critically important to save, and to improve”–and that Sam Zell may be worth a listen.