{"id":62,"date":"2002-02-28T22:37:16","date_gmt":"2002-03-01T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/why_i_support_npr"},"modified":"2002-02-28T22:37:16","modified_gmt":"2002-03-01T03:37:16","slug":"why_i_support_npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2002\/02\/why_i_support_npr.html","title":{"rendered":"Why I Support NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nNPR closed “All Things Considered<\/a>”
\nwith a story on Fox’s upcoming
\nTonya
\nHarding-Amy Fisher<\/a> boxing match. Then
\nshow ended, and local NPR-guy Norm Howard came on to announce traffic and weather.
\n“And that’s why we ask for your contributions,” he said in his dry baritone.\n<\/p>\n

\nI’m not sure if he meant, “because we provide you with hardhitting high-quality
\nstories like that one,” or “because otherwise, our staff will have to scrabble
\nfor a living any way they can, hint, hint.” Either way, it was pretty darn funny.\n<\/p>\n

\nOK, so you want even funnier than those pranksters at NPR?
\nWell, how about C|NET<\/a>? Today they had
\na guest article on web services<\/a>.
\nThe author was Frank Moss, who came out swinging at Microsoft, IBM, Sun, and BEA
\n(how sad that everyone’s forgotten about HP). After jeering at the big vendors,
\nMoss says (warning: marketroid language ahead, may not be appropriate for sensible readers):\n<\/p>\n

\n

Okay, that’s the pain–now for the pain reliever. <\/p>\n

What I see emerging is a new layer of vendor-neutral software that sits on top of the Web services platforms from all the major players–the “Web services automation” layer<\/em>. [Emphasis mine]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nHmmmm, I thought. What the heck is “web services automation”? This would
\nrequire further research.\n<\/p>\n

\nFortunately, I didn’t have to go too far.
\nMoss is CEO of Bowstreet<\/a>, a software
\ncompany that “unleashes the power of web services”. Here’s an excerpt from
\na helpful page titled, “Our
\nsolutions<\/a>“:\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nWhat is the Bowstreet Business Web Factory?

\nThe next-generation web services automation<\/em> system, which works across
\nheterogeneous web services platforms and provides the capability for modeling,
\nassembly, dynamic change management and mass customization…
\n[Emphasis mine]\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nWell, OK, I still have no idea what a “web services automation” system is. But
\nsurprise, surprise — Moss is selling one!\n<\/p>\n

\nYes, yes, I know. C|NET and all the rest of the industry rags aren’t even close to
\nlegitimate journalism. They are merely conduits of
\nFUD<\/a> and
\nadvertisement. But sheesh, they could try<\/em> a little harder. Keep
\nup a pretense, you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, OK, I still have no idea what a “web services automation” system is. But surprise, surprise — Moss is selling one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}