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"This village in the remote southern savannas, little more than an airstrip and scattered mud huts, could easily be taken for one of those far-flung places untouched by the digital revolution.
But it was in this community of 2,000 people that an organization formed by indigenous women of two tribes revived the ancient art of hand-weaving large hammocks from locally grown cotton -- and then took their exquisite wares online. They hired a young member to create a Web site. And last year, they sold 17 hammocks to people around the world for as much as $1,000 apiece, gigantic sums in these parts.
Perhaps too gigantic. The foray into electronic commerce created tension between the weavers and the traditional regional leadership in the same way, perhaps, that many a geeky start-up has sent shivers down the spines of corporate titans. Threatened by the women's success, regional leaders moved in and took control of the weavers' organization. The woman who created the Web site quit in a fury, and the group has been struggling since then to get by."
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“"You're not a designer, you're not a writer, and you're not an editor!"
Well, no, blogger, you're not. And therein lies your gift. Because even if it's true the vast majority of blogs would not be missed by more than a handful of people were the earth to open up and swallow them, and even if the best are still no substitute for the sustained attention of literary or journalistic works, it's also true that sustained attention is not what Web logs are about anyway. At their most interesting they embody something that exceeds attention, and transforms it: They are constructed from and pay implicit tribute to a peculiarly contemporary sort of wonder.
...[T]he Web log reflects our own attempts to assimilate the glut of immaterial data loosed upon us by the "discovery" of the networked world. And there are surely lessons for us in the parallel. For just as the cabinet of wonders took centuries to evolve into the more orderly, logically crystalline museum, so it may be a while before the chaos of the Web submits to any very tidy scheme of organization.”
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