THE WEB RUNS ON LOVE, NOT GREED
Wired magazine co-founder Kevin Kelly says that rather than moping over
last year's dot-com debacle, we should rejoice over what we have -- a Web
that features more than three billion public Web pages chock full of
content, which is freely offered as a gift to the world. "As the Internet
continues to expand in volume and diversity, only a relatively small
percent of its total mass will be money-making. The rest will be created
and maintained out of passion, enthusiasm, a sense of civic obligation, or
simply on the faith that it may later provide some economic use.
High-profile portal sites like Yahoo and AOL will continue to consolidate
and demand our attention (and maybe make some money), while millions of
smaller sites and hundreds of millions of users do the heavy work of
creating content that is used and linked. These will be given away as gifts
to the world." (Wall Street Journal 3 Jan 2002)
*** The information provided here by the loyal members of ifish and other fishing boards are a gift to the world, and an example of our love for the outdoors. My gift to the world is helping it all run smoothly.
Thanks!
Jen
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The goal in Life's Journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "whooo hoooo (!) what a ride!"
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