One Web Day dawns
My book - and disorganization, amplified - put me behind with all kinds of things, among them promoting One Web Day, which comes Monday with lots of events the world around. It’s more important than ever for us, the people, to claim ownership of the internet and to protect it and to promote it.
Imagine if we spent the half-trillion dollars we’re using to bail out mortgage fools and thieves on spreading broadband everywhere in the country. Which would help the economy and the next generation more? Naw, that’s too easy.
Tags: onewebday
September 20th, 2008 at 10:22 am
[...] conference went to questions and answers after that, and we caught up with Jeff Jarvis, of BuzzMachine for his [...]
September 21st, 2008 at 9:46 am
Jeff,
You’re right that there are better ways to spend that kind of money.
It might also be worth examining to what extent technology, and Web 2.0
specifically, has been a beneficiary of the easy money culture of the past 10 years. A lot of individuals and companies that started after the dotcom implosion perhaps reached viability because the Fed primed the economic pump so hard. Absent a revived housing market that then headed for a bubble and the so-called resilience of the US consumer, the world for those early bloggers and startups might look very different today.
Tim