{"id":2237,"date":"2011-10-12T17:40:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2011-10-12T17:40:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:40:38","slug":"in_the_cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/12\/in_the_cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.x96.com\/radiofromhell.php\">morning radio team<\/a>s in these parts has a weekly feature called &#8220;The List of Things That Must Go,&#8221; in which either they or listeners who write in (they alternate every other week) bitch about their pet peeves, i.e., things that must go. Today, someone went off on a lovely little rant about the recent trend toward referring to the Internet as &#8220;the cloud.&#8221; It&#8217;s <i>not <\/i>a cloud, this person insisted, it&#8217;s a physical thing composed of wires and servers and technology, and it already has a perfectly good name, the Internet, so why are people now calling it by this vague and pretentious buzzword? <\/p>\n<p>Normally I&#8217;d be all kinds of down with this gripe, being as I am generally opposed to buzzwords and jargon in all their forms. But this morning I found myself listening with a bemused grin, thinking to myself that this person obviously doesn&#8217;t realize this term originated with the graphical depiction of the Internet as a cloud on networking diagrams. Because that was the simplest way to show a complex yet amorphous infrastructure that usually doesn&#8217;t need to be represented in any kind of detail on these types of diagrams. It&#8217;s not a marketing thing at all, or at least not entirely&#8230; it actually has <i>some <\/i>legitimacy!<\/p>\n<p>God, I have <i>got<\/i> to get away from the tech industry somehow. I have no business knowing things like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the morning radio teams in these parts has a weekly feature called &#8220;The List of Things That Must Go,&#8221; in which either they or listeners who write in (they alternate every other week) bitch about their pet peeves, i.e., things that must go. Today, someone went off on a lovely little rant about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}