{"id":30,"date":"2003-06-24T12:25:57","date_gmt":"2003-06-24T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/2003\/06\/24\/once-upon-a-time-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2003-06-24T12:25:57","modified_gmt":"2003-06-24T16:25:57","slug":"once-upon-a-time-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/2003\/06\/24\/once-upon-a-time-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Once upon a time, part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously, I made the following assertions about the way in which domain knowledge was spread on the Internet 10 years ago and is spread today:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Previously, the locus of online production and retrieval of knowledge was a group (Usenet newsgroup).  The effect of the Web (initially) was to shift that locus to an individual person, company, or organization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The old style of interaction was conversational and collaborative, exemplifying &#8220;peer-to-peer&#8221; before that buzzphrase came into common (over)use. The Web&#8217;s effect was to move the interaction to a largely client-server, publisher-reader type relationship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The &#8220;easy&#8221; knowledge problems have been solved pretty well (the easy ones are those that one can imagine a SQL query for, like &#8220;what time is the movie playing,&#8221; or &#8220;what score\/price did my team\/stock achieve?&#8221;).  The &#8220;hard&#8221; problems are those that you can&#8217;t imagine a SQL query for, but you could get answers to if you were in a room with a bunch of knowledgable folks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; New (uses of) technologies like blogs, Wikis, and Content Management Systems are helping to move us back up to the point we were at in 1993.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, I made the following assertions about the way in which domain knowledge was spread on the Internet 10 years ago and is spread today: &#8211; Previously, the locus of online production and retrieval of knowledge was a group (Usenet newsgroup). The effect of the Web (initially) was to shift that locus to an individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rlucasstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rlucastemp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}