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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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