Why Dave Winer stopped worrying and learned to love the Fail Whale

Good stuff, as usual, from Dave Winer:

The Internet abhors a funnel: "This might be one of those fundamental Internet laws, or it may just turn out to be a way to express another one.

The Internet is a bunch of pipes and tunnels with processors located at the junctions and at the ends of the pipes. Some of the processors are little, things like iPhones, routers, blogs or webcams and some are huge like Google's cloud"

(Via Dave Winer: Scripting News.)

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