Book Review

 

 

The Longing, Chapter 2: David Weinberger

 

 

Book: Cluetrain Manifesto

 

 

Library Reference: N/A

 

 

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0738204315/thesearlsgroup

 

 

Quote:  "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport." – King Lear

 

 

Learning Expectations:

 

 

- I expect to learn, what the author really wants to prove about the topics he had open or discuss in order for me to understand the true visualization of a professional experience in the form of writing and relating it to the real world which is typically good in my part, because in the long run of my career, I know that, I can also encounter such things and can help me be a good IT professional someday.

 

 

Review:

 

 

As a start, there’s this introduction about the topic of the web in which it talks about more on the history on how it starts and on how people relate this in their daily lives, for true conversation, people who uses the net, knows what its functions literally, but the author David Weinberger has this question in mind, that if do people know what truly a web really is, because as he go through the topic, he just realized that the web or the internet era gets to dominate every user in just a pop, but then, people only knows its functions but not the real thing on what this is really for, at most, curiosity of the people should be first be enhanced so that they could deeply know and understand what web is really for.

 

 

Managing is also part of the topic; it just simply applies how it is to be managed in terms of doing things. It really do tell us the word “manage” is a very wide credentials for as to understand it deeply, because the word itself literally mean to fix, direct, supervised and etc. but if were going through it, its more of control, on how we control ourselves, somebody else and the things that surrounds our owning. We all know that applying management in the real world deals with so many factors, if we relate it to the business world, managing a business is too hard, but we know that it already exist by means of control, because controlling something or being controlled can take us or lead us to be managed.

 

 

Professionalism means more than a cup of coffee, because that title, it is only given for people who knows more than their limitations, being professional is something worth having for, because if you’re a professional, indeed it has been a very large factor for you as an employee, it can take higher than others, but what really makes a professional, professional? Is it by obeying the rules? Or is it by knowing what is right or wrong in the first place? For some professionals, they hate their jobs because there are so many gaps above their freedom, it’s like you’ve been cage for a long time, and even you’re leaving in a free country, you still feel uncomfortable. That’s why there’s this topic in this chapter about voice, but not literally the voice, but its true meaning. As a sample, the web, for the author, the true meaning of a the web is to be the voice of the people, to be heard by others, to react on things, mostly, it is for the people who cant tell what is really on their mind, but its their ideas and freedom are all good to be discover, it only hits what a web really for, a software is one of the biggest factor, as the web grows, the inventions and upgrades of software been introduced and gets to dominate in just a short period of time, then different huge companies even small ones gets to compete for the dominations, because as of what they see and been visualized, in the long run, the internet will be much bigger, concept and the process will be more complex due to the fact that every people who uses it were easily been adapted, it’s a nature of as users to be more compatible and comfortable to the things that can make our lives easier.

 

 

The web for other people especially the one who uses it as part of their name or having an income in a very fast manner, they think of web as a new world, why? Because, web easily changes every life flow of every people who discover or uses it, they think of it as, the new generation or the new era where technology is beneath or let as say the center of everything nowadays. Maybe we could agree to that statement but, for some, they use web as a medium for communication that helps them be updated even their far away to the one they have been in-contact with, its still on us, how we want the web to affect our living, if it’s a tool or just something else.

 

 

 

 

Remember that whatever the web means to you, it only indicates that the web is a form of who we really are, because we are the one who abuses and the one who uses it as a part of our daily routine even till the future. It will also be used by the near generations, are grandsons, granddaughters, etc. we should be the start and the end of whatever we made, let as be their guide for using it when they already encounter this process, due to the things that the internet can do, we should protect them from the people who uses the net differently.

 

 

 

 

What I’ve learned:

 

 

- I’ve learned that how important things to be discover in your own way; do not abuse things without even knowing what it can really do. I’ve learned also that the web is not just really a web, it designates to our credentials of who we really are, its good to know that things around you happens because of a certain purposed itself. Learning the truth and being eye-open to the things around you can help you be a good user.

 

 

Citations: N/A

 

 

Submitted by: Malaborbor, Adrian DM.

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