{"id":1631,"date":"2007-08-06T14:29:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T19:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/in-web-we-trust\/"},"modified":"2007-08-06T14:30:49","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T19:30:49","slug":"in-web-we-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/in-web-we-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"In Web we trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/hughmcguire.net\/2007\/08\/03\/trust-on-the-web\/\">If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a presence online, how can I know whether or not I should trust you?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel the same way as Hugh expresses in his post. When I&rsquo;m supposed to do any kind of work or business with someone, I look them up on the Web and if nothing shows up, it makes me a little wary. I also feel that anybody who would want to do business with me &#8211; like buy something from me on eBay for example, or let me sublet their apartment &#8211; would know by looking at my blog and archives that I&rsquo;m a reliable person. (Plus, they&rsquo;d pretty much know where to find me if something went wrong.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have a theory that much of what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening online is rebuilding the physical, small-scale social networks that we crave, but got destroyed in our modern\/suburban\/hypercommercial era. We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know our neighbours, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know the people we buy from, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know the people in the street. 50 or 100 years ago, it was different. Digital identities allow us to *know* people in a way that people used to know people from their own town &#8211; even if they had never spoken or been close socially, everyone knew everyone, and could judge how they should interact\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and now, with weblogs etc, to a certain extent that&rsquo;s coming back, even for strangers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read the whole thing at <a href=\"http:\/\/hughmcguire.net\/2007\/08\/03\/trust-on-the-web\/\">hughmcguire.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a presence online, how can I know whether or not I should trust you? I feel the same way as Hugh expresses in his post. When I&rsquo;m supposed to do any kind of work or business with someone, I look them up on the Web and if nothing shows up, it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/in-web-we-trust\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Web we trust<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}