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<!-- New Clues: The Clues
http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/index.html
By Doc Searls and David Weinberger
Release date: Jan. 8, 2014
Released into the public domain under a Creative Commons 0 license.
-->
<div id="clueswrapper">
<!-- ====== CHAPTER 1 -->
<div class="chapter"> <span class="chapternumb"></span> <span class="chaptertext">
<span style="font-size: 2.0em; font-weight:200">O</span>nce were we
young in the Garden... </span>
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<div class="subhead" id="subhead-0"> <span class="subheadnumb">a. </span> <span class="subheadtext">
The Internet is us, connected. <div class="embeddedlink" id="embeddedsubhead-0" style="display: none;">http://real.URL.coming.soon/#subhead-0</div></span>
<div class="clue" id="1"> <span class="cluenumb">1</span> <span class="cluetext">
The Internet is not made of copper wire, glass fiber, radio
waves, or even tubes. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed1" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#1<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="2"> <span class="cluenumb">2</span> <span class="cluetext">
The devices we use to connect to the Internet are not the
Internet. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed2" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#2<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="3"> <span class="cluenumb">3</span> <span class="cluetext">
Verizon, Comcast, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, and 中国电信 do not
own the Internet. Facebook, Google, and Amazon are not the Net's
monarchs, nor yet are their minions or algorithms. Not the
governments of the Earth nor their Trade Associations have the <a href="http://consentofthenetworked.com/">consent
of the networked</a> to bestride the Net as sovereigns. </span>
<span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed3" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#3<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="4"> <span class="cluenumb">4</span> <span class="cluetext">
We hold the Internet in common and as unowned. </span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed4" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#4<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="5"> <span class="cluenumb">5</span> <span class="cluetext">
From us and from what we have built on it does the Internet
derive all its value. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed5" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#5<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="6"> <span class="cluenumb">6</span> <span class="cluetext">
The Net is of us, by us, and for us. </span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed6" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#6<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="7"> <span class="cluenumb">7</span> <span class="cluetext">
The Internet is ours. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed7" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#7<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
</div>
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<div class="subhead" id="subhead-1"> <span class="subheadnumb">b. </span> <span class="subheadtext">
The Internet is nothing and has no purpose. <div class="embeddedlink" id="embeddedsubhead-1" style="display: none;">http://real.URL.coming.soon/#subhead-1</div></span>
<div class="clue" id="8"> <span class="cluenumb">8</span> <span class="cluetext">
The Internet is not a thing any more than gravity is a thing.
Both pull us together. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed8" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#8<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="9"> <span class="cluenumb">9</span> <span class="cluetext">
The Internet is no-thing at all. <a href="http://www.worldofends.com/">At
its base</a> the Internet is a set of agreements, which the
geeky among us (long may their names be hallowed) call
"protocols," but which we might, in the temper of the day, call
"commandments." </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed9" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#9<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="10"> <span class="cluenumb">10</span> <span class="cluetext">
The first among these is: Thy network shall move all packets
closer to their destinations without favor or delay based on
origin, source, content, or intent. </span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed10" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#10<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="11"> <span class="cluenumb">11</span> <span class="cluetext">
Thus does this First Commandment lay open the Internet to every
idea, application, business, quest, vice, and whatever. </span>
<span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed11" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#11<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="12"> <span class="cluenumb">12</span> <span class="cluetext">
There has not been a tool with such a general purpose since
language. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed12" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#12<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="13"> <span class="cluenumb">13</span> <span class="cluetext">
This means the Internet is not for anything in
particular. Not for social networking, not for documents, not
for advertising, not for business, not for education, not for
porn, not for anything. It is specifically designed for
everything. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed13" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#13<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="14"> <span class="cluenumb">14</span> <span class="cluetext">
<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=9lTtWQlLkwwC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=optimizing+de-optimizing+david+reed&source=bl&ots=_mqGSLoqSV&sig=TWO4uUTWkzGPDBGmwyS0uqBz0NA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Nm5lVN-hJtbdsASnzoKQAQ&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=optimizing%20de-optimizing%20david%20reed&f=false">Optimizing</a>
the Internet for one purpose de-optimizes it for all others. </span>
<span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed14" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#14<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="15"> <span class="cluenumb">15</span> <span class="cluetext">
The Internet like gravity is indiscriminate in its attraction.
It pulls us all together, the virtuous and the wicked alike. </span>
<span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed15" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#15<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
</div>
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<div class="subhead" id="subhead-2"> <span class="subheadnumb">c. </span> <span class="subheadtext">
The Net is not content. <div class="embeddedlink" id="embeddedsubhead-2" style="display: none;">http://real.URL.coming.soon/#subhead-2</div></span>
<div class="clue" id="16"> <span class="cluenumb">16</span> <span class="cluetext">
There is great content on the Internet. But holy mother of
cheeses, the Internet is not made out of content. </span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed16" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#16<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="17"> <span class="cluenumb">17</span> <span class="cluetext">A
teenager's first poem, the blissful release of a long-kept
secret, a fine sketch drawn by a palsied hand, a blog post in a
regime that hates the sound of its people's voices — none of
these people sat down to write content. </span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed17" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#17<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="18"> <span class="cluenumb">18</span> <span class="cluetext">Did
we use the word "content" without quotes? We feel so dirty. </span>
<span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed18" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#18<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
</div>
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<!-- subhead -->
<div class="subhead" id="subhead-3"> <span class="subheadnumb">d. </span> <span class="subheadtext">
The Net is not a medium. <div class="embeddedlink" id="embeddedsubhead-3" style="display: none;">http://real.URL.coming.soon/#subhead-3</div></span>
<div class="clue" id="19"> <span class="cluenumb">19</span> <span class="cluetext">
The Net is not a medium any more than a
conversation is a medium.</span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed19" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#19<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="20"> <span class="cluenumb">20</span> <span class="cluetext">
On the Net, we are the medium. We are the ones who move messages. We do so every time we post
or retweet, send a link in an email, or post it on a social
network. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed20" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#20<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="21"> <span class="cluenumb">21</span> <span class="cluetext">
Unlike a medium, you and I leave our fingerprints, and sometimes
bite marks, on the messages we pass. We tell people why we're
sending it. We argue with it. We add a joke. We chop off the
part we don't like. We make these messages our own. </span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed21" style="">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#21<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="22"> <span class="cluenumb">22</span> <span class="cluetext">
Every time we move a message through the Net, it carries a
little bit of ourselves with it. </span> <span class="link"> </span>
<div class="embeddedlink" id="embed22" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#22<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="23"> <span class="cluenumb">23</span> <span class="cluetext">
We only move a message through this "medium" if it matters to us
in one of the infinite ways that humans care about something. </span>
<span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed23" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#23<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="24"> <span class="cluenumb">24</span> <span class="cluetext">
Caring — mattering — is the motive force of the Internet. </span>
<span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed24" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#24<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
</div>
<!-- section -->
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<div class="subhead" id="subhead-4"> <span class="subheadnumb">e</span> <span class="subheadtext">
The Web is a Wide World. <div class="embeddedlink" id="embeddedsubhead-4" style="display: none;">http://real.URL.coming.soon/#subhead-4</div></span>
<div class="clue" id="25"> <span class="cluenumb">25</span> <span class="cluetext">
In 1991, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee">Tim
Berners-Lee</a> used the Net to create a gift he gave freely to us all: the World Wide Web. Thank you.</span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed25" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#25<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="26"> <span class="cluenumb">26</span> <span class="cluetext">
Tim created the Web by providing protocols (there's that word
again!) that say how to write a page that can link to any other
page without needing anyone's permission. </span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed26" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#26<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="27"> <span class="cluenumb">27</span> <span class="cluetext">
Boom. Within ten years we had billions of pages on the Web — a
combined effort on the order of a World War, and yet so benign
that the biggest complaint was the <span class="blinktag" title="Click to make it stop. For God's sake, CLICK IT!!!" onclick="$(this).removeClass('blinktag'); $(this).attr({title: 'Oh sweet jeebus, thank you!'})"><blink></span></span>
tag. <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed27" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#27<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="28"> <span class="cluenumb">28</span> <span class="cluetext">
The Web is an impossibly large, semi-persistent realm of items
discoverable in their dense inter-connections. </span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed28" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#28<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="29"> <span class="cluenumb">29</span> <span class="cluetext">
That sounds familiar. Oh, yeah, that's what the world is. </span>
<span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed29" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#29<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="30"> <span class="cluenumb">30</span> <span class="cluetext">
Unlike the real world, every thing and every connection on the
Web was created by some one of us expressing an interest and an
assumption about how those <a href="http://www.smallpieces.com/">small
pieces</a> go together. </span> <span class="link"> </span>
<div class="embeddedlink" id="embed30" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#30<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="31"> <span class="cluenumb">31</span> <span class="cluetext">Every
link by a person with something to say is an act of generosity and selflessness, bidding our readers leave our page to see how the
world looks to someone else.
</span> <span class="link"> </span>
<div class="embeddedlink" id="embed31" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#31<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="32"> <span class="cluenumb">32</span> <span class="cluetext">
The Web remakes the world in our
collective, emergent image. </span> <span class="link"> </span>
<div class="embeddedlink" id="embed32" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#32<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
</div>
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<div class="chapter"> <span class="chapternumb"></span> <span class="chaptertext">
<span style="font-size: 2.0em; font-weight:200">B</span>ut oh how we
have strayed, sisters and brothers... </span>
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<div class="subhead" id="subhead-5"> <span class="subheadnumb">a. </span> <span class="subheadtext">
How did we let conversation get <a href="http://blog.bl00cyb.org/2014/11/akirachix-and-weaponized-social/">weaponized</a>,
anyway? <div class="embeddedlink" id="embeddedsubhead-5" style="display: none;">http://real.URL.coming.soon/#subhead-5</div></span>
<div class="clue" id="33"> <span class="cluenumb">33</span> <span class="cluetext">
It's important to notice and cherish the talk, the friendship,
the thousand acts of sympathy, kindness, and joy we encounter on
the Internet. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed33" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#33<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="34"> <span class="cluenumb">34</span> <span class="cluetext">
And yet we hear the words "fag" and "nigger" far more on the Net
than off.<br>
</span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed34" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#34<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="35"> <span class="cluenumb">35</span> <span class="cluetext">
Demonization of 'them' — people with looks, languages, opinions,
memberships and other groupings we don't understand, like, or
tolerate — is worse than ever on the Internet. </span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed35" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#35<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="36"> <span class="cluenumb">36</span> <span class="cluetext">Women in Saudi Arabia can't drive? Meanwhile, <a href="https://medium.com/message/online-and-offline-violence-towards-women-4c854eb591a5">half
of us</a> can't speak on the Net without <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/05/twitter-bomb-threats-women">looking over our
shoulders</a>.</span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed36" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#36<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="37"> <span class="cluenumb">37</span> <span class="cluetext">
Hatred is present on the Net because it's present in the world,
but the Net makes it easier to express and to hear. </span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed37" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#37<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="38"> <span class="cluenumb">38</span> <span class="cluetext">
The solution: If we had a solution, we wouldn't be bothering you
with all these damn clues. </span> <span class="link"> </span>
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<div class="clue" id="39"> <span class="cluenumb">39</span> <span class="cluetext">
We can say this much: Hatred didn't call the Net into being, but
it's holding the Net — and us — back. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="40"> <span class="cluenumb">40</span> <span class="cluetext">
Let's at least acknowledge that the Net has values implicit in
it. Human values. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed40" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#40<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="41"> <span class="cluenumb">41</span> <span class="cluetext">
Viewed coldly the Net is just technology. But it's populated by
creatures who are warm with what they care about: their lives,
their friends, the world we share. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="42"> <span class="cluenumb">42</span> <span class="cluetext">
The Net offers us a common place where we can be who we are, with others who delight in our
differences. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed42" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#42<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="43"> <span class="cluenumb">43</span> <span class="cluetext">
No one owns that place. </span><span class="cluetext">Everybody
can use it. </span><span class="cluetext">Anyone can improve
it.</span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed43" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#43<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="44"> <span class="cluenumb">44</span> <span class="cluetext">
That's what an open Internet is. Wars have been fought for less.
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<div class="subhead" id="subhead-6"> <span class="subheadnumb">b. </span> <span class="subheadtext">
"We agree about everything. I find you <em>fascinating</em>!" <div class="embeddedlink" id="embeddedsubhead-6" style="display: none;">http://real.URL.coming.soon/#subhead-6</div></span>
<div class="clue" id="45"> <span class="cluenumb">45</span> <span class="cluetext">
The world is spread out before us like a buffet, and yet we <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/rewire-digital-cosmopolitans-in-the-age-of-connection/">stick</a>
with our steak and potatoes, lamb and hummus, fish and rice, or
whatever. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed45" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#45<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="46"> <span class="cluenumb">46</span> <span class="cluetext">
We do this in part because conversation requires a common
ground: shared language, interests, norms, understandings.
Without those, it's hard or even impossible to have a
conversation. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed46" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#46<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="47"> <span class="cluenumb">47</span> <span class="cluetext">
Shared grounds spawn tribes. The Earth's solid ground kept tribes at a
distance, enabling them to develop rich differences. Rejoice!
Tribes give rise to Us vs. Them and war. Rejoice? Not so much. </span>
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<div class="clue" id="48"> <span class="cluenumb">48</span> <span class="cluetext">
On the Internet, the distance between tribes starts at zero. </span>
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<div class="clue" id="49"> <span class="cluenumb">49</span> <span class="cluetext">
Apparently knowing how to find one another interesting is not as
easy as it looks. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed49" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#49<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="50"> <span class="cluenumb">50</span> <span class="cluetext">
That's a challenge we can meet by being open, sympathetic, and
patient. We can do it, team! We're #1! We're #1! </span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed50" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#50<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="51"> <span class="cluenumb">51</span> <span class="cluetext">
Being welcoming: There's a value the Net needs to learn from the
best of our real world cultures. </span> <span class="link"> </span>
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<div class="subhead" id="subhead-7"> <span class="subheadnumb">c. </span> <span class="subheadtext">
Marketing still makes it harder to talk. <div class="embeddedlink" id="embeddedsubhead-7" style="display: none;">http://real.URL.coming.soon/#subhead-7</div></span>
<div class="clue" id="52"> <span class="cluenumb">52</span> <span class="cluetext">
We were right the <a href="http://www.cluetrain.com/">first
time</a>: Markets are conversations. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="53"> <span class="cluenumb">53</span> <span class="cluetext">A conversation isn't your business tugging at our sleeve to shill a product we don't want to hear about.
</span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="54"> <span class="cluenumb">54</span> <span class="cluetext">if we want to know the truth about your products, we'll find out from one another.
</span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed54" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#54<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="55"> <span class="cluenumb">55</span> <span class="cluetext">We understand that these conversations are incredibly valuable to you. Too bad. They're ours.
</span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="56"> <span class="cluenumb">56</span> <span class="cluetext">You're welcome to join our conversation, but only if you tell us who you work for, and if you can speak for yourself and as yourself.
</span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed56" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#56<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="57"> <span class="cluenumb">57</span> <span class="cluetext">Every time you call us "consumers" we feel like cows looking up the word "meat."
</span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed57" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#57<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="58"> <span class="cluenumb">58</span> <span class="cluetext">Quit fracking our lives to extract data that's none of your business and that your machines misinterpret.
</span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="59"> <span class="cluenumb">59</span> <span class="cluetext">
Don't worry: we'll tell you when we're in the market for
something. In our own way. Not yours. Trust us: <a href="http://intentioneconomy.net/">this
will be good for you</a>. </span> <span class="link"> </span>
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<div class="clue" id="60"> <span class="cluenumb">60</span> <span class="cluetext">
Ads that sound human but come from your marketing department's
irritable bowels, stain the fabric of the Web.</span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="61"> <span class="cluenumb">61</span> <span class="cluetext">
When personalizing something is creepy, it's a pretty good
indication that you don't understand what it means to be a
person. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed61" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#61<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="62"> <span class="cluenumb">62</span> <span class="cluetext">
Personal is human. Personalized isn't. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="63"> <span class="cluenumb">63</span> <span class="cluetext">
The more machines sound human, the more they slide down into the
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley">uncanny
valley</a> where everything is a <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/12/the-year-we-get-creeped-out-by-algorithms/">creep</a>
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/data-doppelgangers-and-the-uncanny-valley-of-personalization/372780/">show</a>.</span>
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<div class="clue" id="64"> <span class="cluenumb">64</span> <span class="cluetext">
Also: Please stop dressing up ads as news in the hope we'll miss
the little disclaimer hanging off their underwear. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="65"> <span class="cluenumb">65</span> <span class="cluetext">
When you place a "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_advertising">native
ad</a>," you're eroding not just your own trustworthiness, but
the trustworthiness of this entire new way of being with one
another. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed65" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#65<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="66"> <span class="cluenumb">66</span> <span class="cluetext">
And, by the way, how about calling "native ads" by any of their
real names: "product placement," "advertorial," or "fake <span id="fspan" style="display:unset">fucking</span><span id="nofspan" style="display:none" title="Grownups, feel free to mentally substitute the F word.">gosh
darn</span> news"? </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed66" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#66<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="67"> <span class="cluenumb">67</span> <span class="cluetext">
Advertisers got along without being creepy for generations. They
can get along without being creepy on the Net, too. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="subhead" id="subhead-8"> <span class="subheadnumb">d. </span> <span class="subheadtext">
The Gitmo of the Net. <div class="embeddedlink" id="embeddedsubhead-8" style="display: none;">http://real.URL.coming.soon/#subhead-8</div></span>
<div class="clue" id="68"> <span class="cluenumb">68</span> <span class="cluetext">
We all love our shiny apps, even when they're sealed as tight as
a Moon base. But put all the closed apps in the world together
and you have a pile of apps. </span> <span class="link"> </span>
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<div class="clue" id="69"> <span class="cluenumb">69</span> <span class="cluetext">
Put all the Web pages together and you have a new world. </span>
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<div class="clue" id="70"> <span class="cluenumb">70</span> <span class="cluetext">
Web pages are about connecting. Apps are about control. </span>
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<div class="clue" id="71"> <span class="cluenumb">71</span> <span class="cluetext">
<a href="http://dashes.com/anil/2012/12/rebuilding-the-web-we-lost.html">As
we move from the Web</a> to an <a href="https://indiewebcamp.com/Principles">app-based
world</a>, we lose the commons we were building together. </span>
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<div class="clue" id="72"> <span class="cluenumb">72</span> <span class="cluetext">
In the Kingdom of Apps, we are users, not makers. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="73"> <span class="cluenumb">73</span> <span class="cluetext">
Every new page makes the Web bigger. Every new link makes the
Web richer. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed73" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#73<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="74"> <span class="cluenumb">74</span> <span class="cluetext">
Every new app gives us something else to do on the bus. </span>
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<div class="clue" id="75"> <span class="cluenumb">75</span> <span class="cluetext">
Ouch, a cheap shot! </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed75" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#75<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="76"> <span class="cluenumb">76</span> <span class="cluetext">
Hey, "CheapShot" would make a great new app! It's got "in-app
purchase" written all over it. </span> <span class="link"> </span>
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<div class="subhead" id="subhead-9"> <span class="subheadnumb">e</span> <span class="subheadtext">
Gravity's great until it sucks us all into a black hole. <div class="embeddedlink" id="embeddedsubhead-9" style="display: none;">http://real.URL.coming.soon/#subhead-9</div></span>
<div class="clue" id="77"> <span class="cluenumb">77</span> <span class="cluetext">
<a href="https://medium.com/message/net-neutrality-is-sooo-much-more-than-access-to-the-tubes-2344b1e9f220">Non-neutral
applications</a> built on top of the neutral Net are becoming
as inescapable as the pull of a black hole. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="78"> <span class="cluenumb">78</span> <span class="cluetext">
If Facebook is your experience of the Net, then you've strapped
on goggles from a company with a fiduciary responsibility to
keep you from ever taking the goggles off. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="79"> <span class="cluenumb">79</span> <span class="cluetext">
Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple are all in the goggles
business. The biggest truth their goggles obscure: These
companies want to hold us the way black holes hold light. </span>
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<div class="clue" id="80"> <span class="cluenumb">80</span> <span class="cluetext">
These corporate singularities are dangerous not because they are
evil. Many of them in fact engage in quite remarkably civic
behavior. They should be applauded for that. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="81"> <span class="cluenumb">81</span> <span class="cluetext">
But they benefit from the gravity of sociality: The "network
effect" is that thing where lots of people use something because
lots of people use it. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed81" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#81<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="82"> <span class="cluenumb">82</span> <span class="cluetext">
Where there aren't competitive alternatives, we need to be
hypervigilant to remind these Titans of the Valley of the webby
values that first inspired them. </span> <span class="link"> </span>
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<div class="clue" id="83"> <span class="cluenumb">83</span> <span class="cluetext">
And then we need to honor the sound we make when any of us
bravely pulls away from them. It's something between the noise
of a rocket leaving the launchpad and the rip of Velcro as you
undo a too-tight garment. </span> <span class="link"> </span>
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<div class="subhead" id="subhead-10"> <span class="subheadnumb">f. </span> <span class="subheadtext">
Privacy in an age of spies. <div class="embeddedlink" id="embeddedsubhead-10" style="display: none;">http://real.URL.coming.soon/#subhead-10</div></span>
<div class="clue" id="84"> <span class="cluenumb">84</span> <span class="cluetext">Ok,
government, you win. You've got our data. Now, what can we do to
make sure you use it against Them and not against Us? In fact,
can you tell the difference? </span> <span class="link"> </span>
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<div class="clue" id="85"> <span class="cluenumb">85</span> <span class="cluetext">
If we want our government to back off, the deal has to be that
if — when — the next attack comes, we can't complain that they
should have surveilled us harder. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="86"> <span class="cluenumb">86</span> <span class="cluetext">
A trade isn't fair trade if we don't know what we're giving up.
Do you hear that, Security for Privacy trade-off?</span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="87"> <span class="cluenumb">87</span> <span class="cluetext">
With a probability approaching absolute certainty, we are going
to be sorry we didn't do more to keep data out of the hands of
our governments and corporate overlords. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="subhead" id="subhead-11"> <span class="subheadnumb">g. </span> <span class="subheadtext">
Privacy in an age of weasels. <div class="embeddedlink" id="embeddedsubhead-11" style="display: none;">http://real.URL.coming.soon/#subhead-11</div></span>
<div class="clue" id="88"> <span class="cluenumb">88</span> <span class="cluetext">
Personal privacy is fine for those who want it. And we all draw
the line somewhere. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed88" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#88<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="89"> <span class="cluenumb">89</span> <span class="cluetext">
Q: How long do you think it took for pre-Web culture to figure
out where to draw the lines? A: How old is culture? </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="90"> <span class="cluenumb">90</span> <span class="cluetext"><em></em>The
Web is barely out of its teens.</span><span class="cluetext"><span class="cluetext"><em>
</em></span>We are at the beginning, not the end, of the
privacy story. <span style="color: #999999;"></span></span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="91"> <span class="cluenumb">91</span> <span class="cluetext">
We can only figure out what it means to be private once we
figure out what it means to be social. And we've barely begun to
re-invent that. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed91" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#91<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="92"> <span class="cluenumb">92</span> <span class="cluetext">
The economic and political incentives to de-pants and
up-skirt us are so strong that we'd be wise to invest in
tinfoil underwear. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed92" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#92<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="93"> <span class="cluenumb">93</span> <span class="cluetext">
Hackers got us into this and hackers will have to get us out.</span>
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<div class="subhead" id="subhead-12"> <span class="subheadnumb">a. </span> <span class="subheadtext">
Kumbiyah sounds surprisingly good in an echo chamber. <div class="embeddedlink" id="embeddedsubhead-12" style="display: none;">http://real.URL.coming.soon/#subhead-12</div></span>
<div class="clue" id="94"> <span class="cluenumb">94</span> <span class="cluetext">
The Internet is <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/internetisbeautiful">astounding</a>.
The Web is awesome. You are beautiful. Connect us all and we are
more crazily amazing than Jennifer Lawrence. These are simple
facts. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed94" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#94<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="95"> <span class="cluenumb">95</span> <span class="cluetext">
So let's not minimize what the Net has done in the past twenty
years: </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed95" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#95<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="96"> <span class="cluenumb">96</span> <span class="cluetext">
There's so much more music in the world. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="97"> <span class="cluenumb">97</span> <span class="cluetext">
We now make most of our culture for ourselves, with occasional
forays to a movie theater for something blowy-uppy and a $9
nickel-bag of popcorn. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed97" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#97<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="98"> <span class="cluenumb">98</span> <span class="cluetext">
Politicians now have to explain their positions far beyond the
one-page "position papers" they used to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph" title="This is a scratch 'n' sniff word. Go ahead! Mmmm...">mimeograph</a>. </span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed98" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#98<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="99"> <span class="cluenumb">99</span> <span class="cluetext">
Anything you don't understand you can find an explanation for.
And a discussion about. And an argument over. Is it not clear
how awesome that is? </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed99" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#99<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="100"> <span class="cluenumb">100</span> <span class="cluetext">
You want to know what to buy? The business that makes an object
of desire is now the worst source of information about it. The
best source is all of us. </span> <span class="link"> </span>
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<div class="clue" id="101"> <span class="cluenumb">101</span> <span class="cluetext">
You want to listen in on a college-level course about something
you're interested in? <a href="http://www.bing.com/search?q=google">Google</a>
your topic. Take your pick. For free. </span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed101" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#101<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="102"> <span class="cluenumb">102</span> <span class="cluetext">
Yeah, the Internet hasn't solved all the world's problems.
That's why the Almighty hath given us asses: that we might get
off of them. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed102" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#102<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="103"> <span class="cluenumb">103</span> <span class="cluetext">
Internet naysayers keep us honest. We just like 'em better when
they aren't ingrates. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed103" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#103<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
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<div class="subhead" id="subhead-13"> <span class="subheadnumb">b. </span> <span class="subheadtext">
A pocket full of homilies. <div class="embeddedlink" id="embeddedsubhead-13" style="display: none;">http://real.URL.coming.soon/#subhead-13</div></span>
<div class="clue" id="104"> <span class="cluenumb">104</span> <span class="cluetext">
We were going to tell you how to fix the Internet in four easy
steps, but the only one we could remember is the last one: <a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/profit">profit</a>.
So instead, here are some random thoughts… </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="105"> <span class="cluenumb">105</span> <span class="cluetext">
We should be supporting the artists and creators who bring us
delight or ease our burdens. </span> <span class="link"> </span>
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<div class="clue" id="106"> <span class="cluenumb">106</span> <span class="cluetext">
We should have the courage to <a href="http://www.ted.com/speakers/amanda_palmer">ask</a>
for the help we need. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed106" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#106<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="107"> <span class="cluenumb">107</span> <span class="cluetext">
We have a culture that defaults to sharing and laws that default
to copyright. Copyright has its place, but when in doubt, <a href="http://www.creativecommons.org">open
it up</a>.</span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed107" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#107<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="108"> <span class="cluenumb">108</span> <span class="cluetext">
In the wrong context, everyone's an a-hole. (Us, too. But you
already knew that.) So if you're inviting people over for a swim, post the rules. All trolls, out of the pool! </span> <span class="link">
</span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed108" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#108<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="109"> <span class="cluenumb">109</span> <span class="cluetext">
If the conversations at your site are going badly, it's your
fault. </span> <span class="link"></span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="110"> <span class="cluenumb">110</span> <span class="cluetext">
Wherever the conversation is happening, no one owes you a
response, no matter how reasonable your argument or how winning
your smile. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed110" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#110<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="111"> <span class="cluenumb">111</span> <span class="cluetext">
Support the businesses that truly "get" the Web. You'll
recognize them not just because they sound like us, but because
they're on our side. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed111" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#111<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="112"> <span class="cluenumb">112</span> <span class="cluetext">
Sure, apps offer a nice experience. But the Web is about links
that constantly reach out, connecting us without end. For lives
and ideas, completion is death. Choose life. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="113"> <span class="cluenumb">113</span> <span class="cluetext">
Anger is a license to be stupid. The Internet's streets are
already crowded with licensed drivers. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="114"> <span class="cluenumb">114</span> <span class="cluetext">
Live the values you want the Internet to promote. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="115"> <span class="cluenumb">115</span> <span class="cluetext">
If you've been talking for a while, shut up. (We will very
soon.) </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed115" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#115<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
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<div class="subhead" id="subhead-14"> <span class="subheadnumb">c. </span> <span class="subheadtext">
Being together: the cause of and solution to every <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_vs._the_Eighteenth_Amendment">problem</a>.
<div class="embeddedlink" id="embeddedsubhead-14" style="display: none;">http://real.URL.coming.soon/#subhead-14</div></span>
<div class="clue" id="116"> <span class="cluenumb">116</span> <span class="cluetext">
If we have focused on the role of the People of the Net —
you and us — in the Internet's fall from grace, that's because
we still have the faith we came in with. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="117"> <span class="cluenumb">117</span> <span class="cluetext">
We, the People of the Net, cannot fathom how much we can do
together because we are far from finished inventing how to be
together. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed117" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#117<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="118"> <span class="cluenumb">118</span> <span class="cluetext">
The Internet has liberated an ancient force — the gravity
drawing us together. </span> <span class="link"> </span> <div class="embeddedlink" id="embed118" style="display: none;">http://www.cluetrain.com/newclues/#118<br>Embed the clue: <textarea class="embeddedtextarea"></textarea></div></div>
<div class="clue" id="119"> <span class="cluenumb">119</span> <span class="cluetext">
The gravity of connection is love. </span> <span class="link">
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<div class="clue" id="120"> <span class="cluenumb">120</span> <span class="cluetext">
Long live the open Internet. </span> <span class="link"> </span>
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<div class="clue" id="121"> <span class="cluenumb">121</span> <span class="cluetext">
Long may we have our Internet to love. </span> <span class="link">
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