{"id":5888,"date":"2011-10-05T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T03:52:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-10-03T09:52:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T03:52:14","slug":"a_user_group_is_a_peerage_of_r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/a_user_group_is_a_peerage_of_r\/","title":{"rendered":"A user group is a peerage of responsibility."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group members take education into their own hands, and distribute the job of keeping up among themselves. It&#8217;s long been appreciated that <span class=\"nr-highlight\">the best and most useful working knowledge about technical gear comes out of user groups<\/span>. User groups are now a regular feature for avocations such as scuba diving, bicycling, saltwater aquariums, hot-rod cars, or any hobby where technological change seems to outrun understanding.<\/p>\n<p>The most fanatical of user groups can be thought of as <span class=\"nr-emphasis\">&#8220;hobby tribes<\/span>,<span class=\"nr-emphasis\">&#8220;<\/span> a phrase coined by science fiction writer David Brin. Hobby tribes are very informed, very connected, very smart customers. They <span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">band their enthusiasms together and become the experts<\/span>. In some smaller niches they become the market, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group members take education into their own hands, and distribute the job of keeping up among themselves. It&#8217;s long been appreciated that the best and most useful working knowledge about technical gear comes out of user groups. User groups are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/a_user_group_is_a_peerage_of_r\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"1","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[205],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}