tech-ed collisions

read-write web

One of the terms that seems to be used quite a lot lately is the read-write web. While I understand the intention of the term I believe it still embeds us in the world of text and in my view, we have really moved on from that. I read and write text, I talk and listen to audio, record and play video etc so read/write lacks a number of dimensions. In a technical sense, I suppose I may be reading from or writing to a disk drive somewhere no matter whether I am using text, video, audio etc. In realtime video/audio conferencing, I may not even be doing that (forget for a minute caching, logging etc). Still, I haven't found a better term that can convey the idea of contribution and consumption of content/services that is easily understood and remembered.

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Person of the year - you, me, all of us

Congratulations to all across the globe who contribute content and engage in conversations using the Web. Time Magazine has voted us all 'Person of the Year'. What an acknowledgment from a traditional media company. To some extent social networking services are being gobbled up by traditional media giants anyway (eg myspace) but this does seem to be quite a recognition of the impact that 'Web 2.0' is having at the moment. I guess the question I am left wondering is whether or not to be a little sceptical about it all - 'time' will tell.

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Whatever happened to 1.0?

From twopointouch, the next big thing 'according to Tim O'Reilly' is Who 2.0. Now, while there is some really interesting discussion here on Identity, what's the deal with all things 2.0? In a previous article I suggested that Web 2.0 among other things, is a great marketing term but I probably should have refined that to just 2.0. There are so many * 2.0's out there now but some seem to just jump straight there. I am joining the bandwagon for a while and appending 2.0 to the title of this blog. Cheers.

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