{"id":311,"date":"2007-08-19T23:35:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T03:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2007-08-19T23:35:31","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T03:35:31","slug":"my-soapbox-internet-anarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2007\/my-soapbox-internet-anarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"My Soapbox: Internet Anarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 19 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p>BarCampBlock was inspiring and enjoyable.  I reconnected with some key grapple-points in my work &#8212; business intention, project management, outsourcing, copyright, and market bubbles.  The hallway conversations have been useful and relevant, and I even got interviewed for <a href=\"http:\/\/techchannel.att.com\/\">ATT&#8217;s Tech Channel<\/a><br \/>\nshow with Hugh Thompson.  What surprised me, though, is that more than once (including on camera), I hopped onto a soapbox that I didn&#8217;t know I had: <strong>The Internet is about anarchy.  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apparently I am very passionate about this idea.  Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>What do I mean by this? I mean that the Internet is about freedom, personal empowerment, self-organization, and lack of government.  It&#8217;s a medium where people come together from all over the world and create their own experiences and communities.  It is freeform, evolving, and self-directed.  It is passionate.  It is a collection of user-generated content that is localized, globalized, focused, far-reaching, and important.<\/p>\n<p>It cannot be controlled.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m excited about BarCamp because it&#8217;s modeled after this energy.   People show up, create their own sessions (I led one on &#8220;Project Management for Multi-Taskers&#8221;), and migrate toward what really matters to them.  There is no profit to be had, no corporate structure to accomodate, no government to adhere to.  Every attendee is a participant, and every participant is a volunteer.  There is a culture of respect, but all structure and values are self-imposed and in constant evolution.<\/p>\n<p>It has a life of its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 19 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.BarCampBlock was inspiring and enjoyable. I reconnected with some key grapple-points in my work &#8212; business intention, project management, outsourcing, copyright, and market bubbles. The hallway conversations have been useful and relevant, and I even got interviewed for ATT&#8217;s Tech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}