Comments on: Gatekeepers need to stop calling themselves gatekeepers http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/04/11/160/gatekeepers-need-to-stop-calling-themselves-gatekeepers/ Inside Online Media Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:36:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: turkeyshoot http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/04/11/160/gatekeepers-need-to-stop-calling-themselves-gatekeepers/#comment-15570 turkeyshoot Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:28:10 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/04/11/160/gatekeepers-need-to-stop-calling-themselves-gatekeepers/#comment-15570 Lest you still have a shred of doubt, the answers are 'Yes' and 'Yes'. Lest you still have a shred of doubt, the answers are ‘Yes’ and ‘Yes’.

]]> By: Jim Bursch http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/04/11/160/gatekeepers-need-to-stop-calling-themselves-gatekeepers/#comment-15556 Jim Bursch Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:55:47 +0000 http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/2007/04/11/160/gatekeepers-need-to-stop-calling-themselves-gatekeepers/#comment-15556 Gatekeeper is a metaphor that is completely off the mark on the Internet. It implies the existence of a wall, and the only way to the other side is through the gate. How meaningful is a gate propped up in the middle of an open field with no wall? How irrelevant is the gatekeeper when you can just walk around the gate? At best we have signposts that point to each other, some more than others. And these are not signposts on something so restricting as a road. These are signposts in a vast open space. And if any of those signposts presume to be gate, we just route around it. Gatekeeper is a metaphor that is completely off the mark on the Internet.

It implies the existence of a wall, and the only way to the other side is through the gate.

How meaningful is a gate propped up in the middle of an open field with no wall? How irrelevant is the gatekeeper when you can just walk around the gate?

At best we have signposts that point to each other, some more than others. And these are not signposts on something so restricting as a road. These are signposts in a vast open space. And if any of those signposts presume to be gate, we just route around it.

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