{"id":1996,"date":"2005-12-07T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T00:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2005-12-07T00:01:42","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T00:01:42","slug":"the_costs_of_as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"The Costs of Asymmetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/2005\/12\/06#theCostsOfAsymmetry\">Doc Searls is right on<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>How many small and home office (SOHO) businesses would be made possible by services that let people produce as well as consume?<\/p>\n<p>How many small service businesses can&#8217;t grow because people can&#8217;t (or don&#8217;t bother to) run servers in their homes? How many business-building activities are strangled before they are born by prohibitively narrow upstream bandwidths?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Searls is right on: How many small and home office (SOHO) businesses would be made possible by services that let people produce as well as consume? How many small service businesses can&#8217;t grow because people can&#8217;t (or don&#8217;t bother to) run servers in their homes? How many business-building activities are strangled before they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}