December 29, 2011 / 5 Comments /
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Facebook is The New Suburbia

This car­toon was ins­pi­red by Matt Mullenweg’s very moving post over on GigaOm, “Open Web FTW”. He’s right, the web needs to stay open, WE need to stay open:

For a year now, I’ve said scrip­ting is the new lite­racy. That’s something I strongly believe. In Dou­glas Rushkoff’s latest book, he talks about “pro­gram or be pro­gram­med.” That is, if you’re not in con­trol of your inputs, you’re not really in con­trol of your out­puts either. You’re just a reac­tio­nary force.

[NB. gaping­void is crea­ted on Word­Press soft­ware, Mullenwag’s com­pany. I’ve hung out with him a cou­ple of times. A lovely fellow.]

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  1. dlysen says:
    December 29, 2011 at 7:08 PM

    I like the dra­wing. I just want to be thank­ful that the web is open. I admit that face­book give benefits.

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  2. Ryan says:
    December 29, 2011 at 11:08 PM

    Re: Pro­gram or be Pro­gram­med, I just pen­ned a rela­ted post on the Learn it Your­self move­ment: http://bit.ly/sReK6m

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  3. Aruna says:
    January 24, 2012 at 11:37 AM

    Oh..this could be a great title for your next book!

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