ReadWriteWeb wrote yesterday about their experience folowing Dave Winer‘s step-by-step guide to creating a server on Amazon EC2.
The post reported:
EC2 for Poets is named after a class that Winer took at the University of Wisconsin called Computer Science for Poets, where the idea of “taking something that’s inherently technical, and instead of doing something that technologists like to do with it – which is make it more mysterious – is to try and take as much of the mystery out of it as possible, and make it easy.”
and quoted Winer, saying:
“Where we need to be,” says Winer, “and this happens early on in every technology, we end up relying on the tech companies too much. It makes sense at first; we need someone to set it up for us and make it simple, but then, it has its downside because we end up being controlled by them and they may be taking us someplace we don’t want to go.”
The full post explains that “His how-to is so easy to understand that we had our own server up and running within the hour”
EC2 for Poets