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David Weinberger
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David Weinberger writes Joho the Blog, a personal blog at hyperorg.com about culture, web and writing. Since 2009, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Please Keep JavaScript Dumb”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David Weinberger's blog for posts on net neutrality, ISP upload speeds, DMCA takedowns and Wikipedia taxonomy, along with the 'stupid network' idea.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter called a post on why ISP upload is slower a pretty good write-up.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
David Weinberger's blog. Let's just see what happens - Tagline (c) 1999
Most-linked posts?
- Please Keep JavaScript Dumb2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-29
What Hacker News says?
> I think we have a serious problem of definitions (which goes back to what I said about this being not trivial to define): we're both saying the phrase "dumb pipe" and apparently meaning quite different things by it. Really? How many definitions are there? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_pipe http://www.hyperorg.com/misc/stupidnet.html > In an ideal world? A form of local loop unbundling, with a not-for-profit…
Comment linking /misc/stupidnet.html
on “FCC weakens net neutrality rule in a prelude to larger rollbacks”Submitted Harvard puts metadata for 12M library items into the public domain as a story · 115 points
HN discussionWell, ISPs did not build their systems with equal upload and download in mind. There is no pure technical reason they couldn't have, but it was what they did. To replace all of that would be difficult, and the large players in the existing system will have economic motivations for fighting any change. There is a pretty good write up here: http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/10/03/why-up-is-slower-...
Comment linking /blogger/2009/10/03/why-up-is-slower-than-down/
on “Spotify hit with $1.6B copyright lawsuit”Submitted Back when not every question had an answer as a story · 38 points
HN discussionhttps://www.hyperorg.com/gifs/hat.gif heh this is way OT now but this cracks me up
Comment linking /gifs/hat.gif
on “Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?”Submitted Please Keep JavaScript Dumb as a story · 21 points
HN discussionI looked around for costs; basically the original copyright holder has to prove damages. Since most people using Youtube, et al, are not making that much profit, the DMCA-issuers won't face significant penalties for misusing DMCAs. Seems like I won't get much penalties for taking down the trailers because it's hard to prove damages. http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2010/02/27/the-economics-of-... http://www.techdirt.…
Comment linking /blogger/2010/02/27/the-economics-of-accusation-penalty-for-false-dmca-claims-is-low/
on “Warner Bros: We issued takedowns for files we never saw”Submitted The opposite of “open” is “theirs” as a story · 20 points
HN discussionTaxonomy is hard, especially if you don't want it to be a collection of poorly-aging cultural biases. Even professional librarians have problems creating and maintaining future-proof ones. Why does the Dewey Decimal System still have 10x as much space for Unitarianism as it does for all of Buddhism? [1] Well, think about what it would take to fix Dewey's initial biases post-hoc... either you have to get it exactly r…
Comment linking /backissues/joho-sep03-04.html
on “Wikipedia’s Emergency”Submitted Will books survive? A scorecard. as a story · 13 points
HN discussionPeople seem to be responding to the title rather than the content of this article. Funny enough, but the linked post is actually not about that thought experiment. It's Winer's response to someone else writing about the "What if?". Winer more or less defends Zucker via the Joe Hewitt argument that the web is stagnating, that the web is not a sufficiently rich platform for apps and that the only (best?) way to move f…
Comment linking /blogger/2010/05/15/if-mark-zuckerberg-invented-the-web
on “What if Zuck invented the web?”Submitted Apple blocking books that link to Amazon as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThanks for those pointers, it looks like he wrote five "nongenre" novels, http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?18 . I was looking at his time-travel collection, Years in the Making . Separately, Charles Singer edited a 1950's History of Technology encyclopedia which is well respected: http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2013/07/28/the-history-of-th... and http://www.amazon.com/review/RG20DEV8YLX39/ref=cm_cr_rdp_per...
Comment linking /blogger/2013/07/28/the-history-of-the-history-of-technology/
on “Book review: The Ancient Engineers (2005)”Submitted Alphabetical order explained in a mere 27,817 words as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe "netheads vs. bellheads" war is captured in "Rise of the Stupid Network" by David Isenberg: https://www.hyperorg.com/misc/stupidnet.html
Comment linking /misc/stupidnet.html
on “Netheads vs. bellheads redux: the strange victory of SIP over the telephone”Submitted What blogging was as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The public ombudsman (or Facts don't work the way we want) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Study: Bandwidth hogs aren't responsible for peak network congestion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The new medium is us; we are the medium as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Internet hasn’t happened to most people yet (Google talk). as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Volcano 1, Internet 0.01 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Keep JavaScript Dumb as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Edison chose not to invent speech-to-text tech as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The history of the history of technology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What blogging was as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anil Dash: "The Web We Lost" as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aaron Swartz was not a hacker. He was a builder. as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Customer support (and collateral PR) at Reddit: How it’s done as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reddit and community journalism as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reddit and community journalism as a story · 1 points
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