{"id":468,"date":"2003-03-14T14:23:06","date_gmt":"2003-03-14T19:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=468"},"modified":"2003-03-14T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2003-03-14T19:23:06","slug":"reintermediation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2003\/03\/14\/reintermediation\/","title":{"rendered":"Reintermediation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/byte.org\">Ross<\/a> certainly gets it about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofends.com\">World of Ends<\/a>.  Providing services on a network is all about being an endpoint yourself, but acting as a middleman between the consumer of your service and the value they seek.  <a href=\"www.tucows.com\">Tucows<\/a> isn&#8217;t so much a place IN the net that is a source of downloadable files as one ON the net that acts as a proxy whereby a seeker of files can be matched up with a producer of files &#8211; an enabler of the two-way conversation.  <\/p>\n<p>Since, as David Weinberger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperorg.com\/blogger\/mtarchive\/001314.html\">discusses<\/a>, a world of ends means Spam filtering must be done at the ends, that doesn&#8217;t mean it has to be done at the terminus of the conversation &#8211; interlocutors play an essential role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ross certainly gets it about the World of Ends. Providing services on a network is all about being an endpoint yourself, but acting as a middleman between the consumer of your service and the value they seek. Tucows isn&#8217;t so much a place IN the net that is a source of downloadable files as one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}