{"id":876,"date":"2006-12-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/12\/09\/814\/"},"modified":"2006-12-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T23:00:00","slug":"814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/12\/09\/814\/","title":{"rendered":"A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Udell &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/2006\/12\/08.html#a1574\" title=\"Jon Udell: A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft\">A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;For those of us in the club, it&#8217;s a golden age. With computers and networks and information systems we can invent new things almost as fast as we can think them up. But we&#8217;re leaving a lot of folks behind. And I&#8217;m not just talking about the digital divide that separates the Internet haves from the have-nots. Even among the haves, the ideas and tools and methods that some of us take for granted haven&#8217;t really put down roots in the mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve evangelized a bunch of things to the alpha-geek crowd: Internet groupware, blogging, syndication, tagging, web architecture, lightweight integration, microformats, structured search, screencasting, dynamic languages, geographic mapping, random-access audio, and more. There&#8217;s a purpose behind all this, and Doug Engelbart saw it very clearly a long time ago. The augmentation of human capability in these sorts of ways isn&#8217;t just some kind of geek chic. It&#8217;s nothing less than a survival issue for our species.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Udell &#8211; A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft: &#8222;For those of us in the club, it&#8217;s a golden age. With computers and networks and information systems we can invent new things almost as fast as we can think them up. But we&#8217;re leaving a lot of folks behind. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}