Tim Berners-Lee, considered the "inventor of the Web" and knighted for this contribution in 2004, recently published a research paper in the prestigious journal Science. The article is very technical (and access to it requires a subsription), but here is a bit that caught my attention because it relates to the use of blogs on the UUCP website:

Web science is about [...] engineering new infrastructure protocols and understanding the society that uses them, and it is about the creation of beneficial new systems. It has its own ethos: decentralization to avoid social and technical bottlenecks, openness to the reuse of information in unexpected ways, and fairness. [...] Web science is about making powerful new tools for humanity, and doing it with our eyes open.

The key phrase for me, as the currnet UUCP "web master", is the decentralization ethos (avoiding social and technical bottlenecks). It expresses very well the purpose of the blog section of the UUCP website.

Petr

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