{"id":8054,"date":"2014-01-12T09:01:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T14:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8054"},"modified":"2015-04-06T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:31:52","slug":"review-an-army-of-davids-how-markets-and-technology-empower-ordinary-people-to-beat-big-media-big-government-and-other-goliaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2014\/01\/12\/review-an-army-of-davids-how-markets-and-technology-empower-ordinary-people-to-beat-big-media-big-government-and-other-goliaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/164871\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net\/books\/1347363585m\/164871.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/164871\">An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/95830\">Glenn Reynolds<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/223609871\">2 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      On page 36 there is a quote about Athens, GA where I live about a wireless network downtown anyone can use. When I first moved here, there was something like this, but I had to have a university account to make use of it. Also, I did not recognize Blue Sky Coffee, the coffee shop mentioned. So I looked up the article quoted, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2004\/11\/29\/digital_metropolis\/\">Urban Renewal: The Wireless Way<\/a>&#8221; and the coffee shop. Blue Sky Coffee closed less than a month after the article mentioned it. The wireless network four years later. <\/p>\n<p>The Blue Sky Coffee closure should have been pretty obvious to the author or editor. Except that I lived in the city mentioned, I would have not stumbled on it. Because I did, everything else suffered a more skeptical analysis. And there was plenty of cherry picked examples with just dismissive mentions of counter evidence. So even though for the most part I agree with the conclusions, I was disappointed with how we arrived there.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part is the predictions. Authors really should stay away from them unless they can ensure the writing will not be read after the predicted event. <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/223609871\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths by Glenn Reynolds My rating: 2 of 5 stars On page 36 there is a quote about Athens, GA where I live about a wireless network downtown anyone can use. When I first moved here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[256],"tags":[2706],"class_list":["post-8054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","tag-book-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-25U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}