{"id":2549,"date":"2008-08-03T13:39:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T18:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2008-08-03T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T19:42:08","slug":"small-is-the-new-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/small-is-the-new-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Small is the New Big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with Phillip Rosedale! Not about the easy of use of the Second Life interface, but about innovation to productivity being the best path for a young company to take. Rosedale gets a lot of attention and quotes in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/03\/technology\/03unbox.html\">Janet Rae-Dupree&#8217;s article in the NYTimes today<\/a> (in print just above <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/03\/technology\/03essay.html\">an article that upsets some of my tweeple<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/criminalsearches.com\">criminalsearches.com<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Also mentioned is Seth Godin&#8217;s book title, Small is the New Big. Rae-Dupree hints that Seth&#8217;s book is on smallness and agility; it&#8217;s not that&#8217;s in a lot of the essays that make up the collection of course but there is that <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2005\/06\/small_is_the_ne.html\">one great and on the point essay from which the book takes its title<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those who pay attention to my various speakings know that I&#8217;ve been using Seth&#8217;s essay (and book) to make that point about ibiblio and who we work there for the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, small is the Future of Work &#8212; so Thomas Malone tells us &#8212; and ibiblio like Linden Labs is a believer or is that believers? (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wiki\/index.php\/OCLC_talk_for_May_2007\">my talks<\/a> including <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/what-i-saidwhat-i-said\/\">a recent TriLUG video<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And thanks to the other Paul Joneses in North Carolina for keeping our joint criminal records info cloud clean!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with Phillip Rosedale! Not about the easy of use of the Second Life interface, but about innovation to productivity being the best path for a young company to take. Rosedale gets a lot of attention and quotes in Janet Rae-Dupree&#8217;s article in the NYTimes today (in print just above an article that upsets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2553,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions\/2553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}