diff --git a/content/manifestos/2011-02-03-A-DIY-Data-Manifesto.txt b/content/manifestos/2011-02-03-A-DIY-Data-Manifesto.txt index 83db15e..da350a1 100644 --- a/content/manifestos/2011-02-03-A-DIY-Data-Manifesto.txt +++ b/content/manifestos/2011-02-03-A-DIY-Data-Manifesto.txt @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ desktop. That's the message Dave Winer, forefather of blogging and creator of RSS, is trying to get across with his EC2 for Poets project. The name comes from Amazon's EC2 service and classes common in liberal arts colleges, like programming for poets or computer -science for poets. The theme of such classes is that anyone — even a -poet — can learn technology. +science for poets. The theme of such classes is that anyone - even a +poet - can learn technology. Winer wants to demystify the server. "Engineers sometimes mystify what they do, as a form of job security," writes Winer, "I prefer to make @@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ the web will need an army of distributed servers run by hobbyists, not just tech-savvy web admins, but ordinary people who love the web and want to experiment. -So while you can get your EC2 server up and running today — and even -play around with Winer's River2 news aggregator — the real goal is +So while you can get your EC2 server up and running today - and even +play around with Winer's River2 news aggregator - the real goal is further down the road. Winer's vision is a distributed web where everything is loosely coupled. "For example," Winer writes, "the roads I drive on with my car are loosely-coupled from the car. I might drive @@ -84,12 +84,12 @@ you write with the tools of your choice and publish to your own server. If everyone publishes first to their own server there's no single point of failure. There's no fail whale, and no company owns your data. Once the content is on your server you can then push it on to -wherever you'd like — Twitter, Tumblr, WordPress of whatever the site +wherever you'd like - Twitter, Tumblr, WordPress of whatever the site du jour is ten years from now. The glue that holds this vision together is RSS. Winer sees RSS as the ideal broadcast mechanism for the distributed web and in fact he's -already using it — Winer has an RSS feed of links that are then pushed +already using it - Winer has an RSS feed of links that are then pushed on to Twitter. No matter what tool he uses to publish a link, it's gathered up into a single RSS feed and pushed on to Twitter.