{"id":2811,"date":"2009-03-11T13:15:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T17:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2009-03-11T13:15:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T17:15:41","slug":"perfecting-imperfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/11\/perfecting-imperfection.html","title":{"rendered":"Perfecting Imperfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alatechsource.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/web-20-perfecting-imperfection.html\"><strong>Web 2.0 : Perfecting Imperfection<\/strong><\/a> is, on one level, responding to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alatechsource.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/a-n00b-goes-camping-drupal-camp-at-darien-library.html\">a post<\/a> by someone who attended an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unconference\">unconference<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/drupal.org\/about\">Drupal<\/a>, calling it &#8220;by far the most human conference I\u2019d ever been to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On a deeper level, however, it is about the benefits of mutual cooperation and openness, and how they are both part of and improve many of the ideas that are bundled into that which we call <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Web_2.0\">Web 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the scope of the post, I feel that this can also be applied to libraries and library technology.\u00a0 To paraphrase <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linus%27s_Law\">Linus&#8217;s Law<\/a>:\u00a0 given enough people with a shared sense of committment, all problems are surmountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web 2.0 : Perfecting Imperfection is, on one level, responding to a post by someone who attended an unconference about Drupal, calling it &#8220;by far the most human conference I\u2019d ever been to.&#8221; On a deeper level, however, it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/11\/perfecting-imperfection.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2920,2924,2936,2943,2944],"tags":[4398,4397,3663,4395,4396,4394],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-conferences","category-groups","category-libraries","category-library-20","tag-drupal","tag-eric-raymond","tag-library-technology","tag-linus-torvalds","tag-linuss-law","tag-unconference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Jl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}