{"id":1613,"date":"2005-11-03T17:30:27","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/11\/03\/what_is_social.html"},"modified":"2005-11-03T17:30:27","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T17:30:27","slug":"what_is_social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/11\/03\/what_is_social.html","title":{"rendered":"what is &#8220;social software&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;A lot of programmers, seem to me to think that <b>the whole point of social software is to replace the social with software.<\/b> Which is not really what you want to do, right? Social Software should exist to empower us to be human&#8230; to interact&#8230; in all the normal ways that humans do.&#8221; &#8212; Jimmy Wales<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Clarification:<\/b> Sorry for the earlier version without the full context &#8211; i didn&#8217;t realize how badly it would read.  I didn&#8217;t mean to suggest that Jimmy thought that social software should be about replacing the social with the software, but that he was criticizing what had emerged with the techno-centric development of tools meant to help with socialization in the last couple of years.  I&#8217;m soo sorry for implying anything else (and thanks to the wonderful commenters for making me realize that i boobooed).<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who wants to hear the full audio of Jimmy&#8217;s talk should check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/josephhall.org\/nqb2\/index.php\/2005\/11\/03\/jimbo\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A lot of programmers, seem to me to think that the whole point of social software is to replace the social with software. Which is not really what you want to do, right? Social Software should exist to empower us to be human&#8230; to interact&#8230; in all the normal ways that humans do.&#8221; &#8212; Jimmy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}