Book Review 

The Hyperlinked Organization, Chapter 5: David Weinberger 

Book: Cluetrain Manifesto 

Library Reference: N/A

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

Quote:  “To be human is to be imperfect. We die. We make mistakes.”

Learning Expectations:

-       I want to learn and understand what the author means I want to relate myself with deep understanding of the topics he had open. I would like to know what he really visualized in terms of his reports and findings. I want to enlarge my ideas about what’s really behind the hyperlinked organizations, what it can do and how it affects people lives as part of their living. 

Review:

            As an introduction of the author, he only shows and explain how powerful the internet is, how it innovates the people by just a short period of time and how it connects. It is true that we became addicted in using the internet as a source of our needs, even a simple thing that can be found in our daily doings, we still depend on the net due to the fact that is more resourceful and reliable due to its large scale of information.

            Direct connection is one of its tool on how hyperlinks works beneath the area of security. It only shows that once you use it, you can have a fully direct access connection to them in which it powers and uses the capability of the hyperlink to view the information they need and go beyond the limits, that’s why there’s this notion that hyperlinks subvert hierarchy, because hyperlinks has been unsealed every private access on the internet by only linking its URL to the one you’ve been looking for. Some says that, hyperlinks break the rule of every organization and companies that turn them to be viewed in public instead of being a private property because by the power of the hyperlink, nothing is impossible.

            Web is not a medium for information, marketing or sales. It’s were people meet, talk, build, fight, love and play. For this statement I do agree that the web is used for people to be connected to each other and not by promoting something to the firm for marketing purposes, this marketing are just branches of what the internet can do, besides, that’s why some companies / organizations uses this as a purposed for their market because they know that the influence of the internet booms to the people due to its reliability and large scale of sources, that’s the time were marketers abuse the use of the net and begun to build the networked market, that should be even on TV commercials or advertisement only.

            They say that hyperlinks are borderless; rich in data, fast access and etc. these examples are true indeed, because as what I say lately, that hyperlink gets to broke the rules or go beyond its true limitations. Due to this fact, it even returns down to its own priorities, it deeply bows on its existence. Borderless in the sense that its open source and it can easily surfs though the entire network and find what you need. Rich in data due to the fact that, through the wide scale of information that the internet gets to collect and have, it can already be called the main source of every resources, and it even gives you other alternatives if incase the result you’ve been looking for is not locally similar to what you expect.

            Open access. Yes its true because everybody can access through the net as long as you’ve agreed to the said limitations, surf all you want, explore all you want, but remember, whatever you’ve been involved with is your own problem, if incase you encounter the security that stops surfers in entering their perimeter of occupations, the that’s the time you would need to get careful.

What I’ve learned:

-        I’ve learned that, not all free things can be good to yourself, it can maybe one of the cause of problem due to the things you’ve done illegally. I also learned that things in common are not meant to be similar. I learned also that things that has been given to us should be use wisely and not abuse it as much as we could, so that we can make things worth every single day.

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Submitted by: Malaborbor, Adrian DM.

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