http://bokardo.com/archives/the-wisdom-of-searls/ A Blog about Social Web Design Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:52:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://bokardo.com/archives/the-wisdom-of-searls/comment-page-1/#comment-2796 blob » Redistribution of power Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:28:59 +0000 http://bokardo.com/archives/the-wisdom-of-searls/#comment-2796 [...] Over on bokardo blog, Joshua Porter quotes Doc Searls about the disruptive nature of blogs: One of the main points we made in The Cluetrain Manifesto, way back in 1999, was that the real revolution with the Net was not an increase in the power of supply, but an increase in the power of demand. Customers were no longer mere “consumers”, and not only graced with far more choice –the power to pick and choose among vendors’ products and services. Thanks to the Net, and to features such as blogging, the demand side now had the power also to *supply*. This is what’s so disruptive.” [...] [...] Over on bokardo blog, Joshua Porter quotes Doc Searls about the disruptive nature of blogs: One of the main points we made in The Cluetrain Manifesto, way back in 1999, was that the real revolution with the Net was not an increase in the power of supply, but an increase in the power of demand. Customers were no longer mere “consumers”, and not only graced with far more choice –the power to pick and choose among vendors’ products and services. Thanks to the Net, and to features such as blogging, the demand side now had the power also to *supply*. This is what’s so disruptive.” [...]

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