# Doc Searls Weblog Surfs down. For now. - Host: [blogs.law.harvard.edu](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/blogs.law.harvard.edu/) - Saved: April 8, 2013 (2013-04-08T21:41:21Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3e5a1d34d286/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3e5a1d34d286.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) Somewhere in the midst of our chat, Erik summarized the situation with a metaphor that rang so true that I have to share it. Heres roughly what he said: The backwash thats coming is a tsunami that hasnt hit yet. Right now its a wide swell over deep water. But you can tell its coming because the tide is suspiciously far out. So we have all these Big Data marketing types, out there on the muddy flats, raking up treasures of exposed personal data. They dont see that this is not the natural way of things, or that its temporary. But the tidal wave is coming. And when it finally hits, watch out. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [More cold water from Gregory Clark](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d6f1b3b0e760/) (blogs.law.harvard.edu, August 16, 2009) - [Analysis of home prices in terms of weeks of work](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1781c595c60e/) (blogs.law.harvard.edu, January 13, 2010) - [Wikileaks FAQ](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8e7101b083d1/) (blogs.law.harvard.edu, December 11, 2010) - [A sense of bewronging](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2438acb687d1/) (blogs.law.harvard.edu, April 3, 2011) - [Take us to The Rivers](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/72ebf7526d02/) (blogs.law.harvard.edu, May 8, 2012) ## Saved the same week - [How We Lost the Web - Anil Dash](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9f7a577454b3/) (dashes.com, April 8, 2013) - [Alfred 2 Workflows I Use](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6873fe914357/) (macdrifter.com, April 8, 2013) - [WhereAmI](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6594f2952ae2/) (robmathers.github.io, April 8, 2013) - [Blockly Turtle Graphics](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fd8b358d8827/) (blockly-demo.appspot.com, April 8, 2013) - [Blockly Maze](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/aa4a3bcfdc8a/) (blockly-demo.appspot.com, April 8, 2013) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2013/03/22/surfs-down-for-now/