{"id":1839,"date":"2007-05-02T13:52:46","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T13:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2007\/05\/02\/maps_tech_compa.html"},"modified":"2007-05-02T13:52:46","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T13:52:46","slug":"maps_tech_compa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2007\/05\/02\/maps_tech_compa.html","title":{"rendered":"maps + tech companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/c256.html\">XKCD<\/a> has the best map today:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/c256.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/online_communities.png\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but think of an old post that i wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/07\/16\/which_evil_nation_state_are_you__similes_for_microsoft_yahoo_and_google.html\">search engines as evil nation states of the 20th century<\/a>, resulting in this silly image:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/07\/16\/which_evil_nation_state_are_you__similes_for_microsoft_yahoo_and_google.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geeked.org\/images\/allegory_450.jpg\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This had particular resonance today when a friend IMed me to say that Digg is like the UAE: it looks clean and modern on the surface, but it&#8217;s no doubt corrupt as ever on the inside.<\/p>\n<p><i>(For those who are unaware, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/05\/02\/digg_users_revolt_ov.html\">Digg&#8217;s users revolted yesterday<\/a> over Digg&#8217;s decision to block posts concerning the HD-DVD key.  A bigger question has emerged over what else Digg quietly suppresses.)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XKCD has the best map today: I couldn&#8217;t help but think of an old post that i wrote about search engines as evil nation states of the 20th century, resulting in this silly image: This had particular resonance today when a friend IMed me to say that Digg is like the UAE: it looks clean [&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":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web2-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","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=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}