Some bloggers do something called ‘live blogging’ from conferences, wherein they aim to note, more-or-less verbatim, the content of the sessions they are attending. I am far too busy with other weighty intellectual matters at conferences - Twitter messages about the speakers’ funny haircuts and who else is here from Twitter - so it takes [...]
Tag Archives: web 2.0
Directive Number One
January 18, 2008 – 1:30 am
Many thanks to comrade Mayfield for his excellent presentation to the collected officers of the Social Media Commissariat … sorry Club, this evening.
To cut his talk short, he’d been thinking about the parallels between the birth of social media and the birth of print itself, as described in Elizabeth Eisenstein’s The printing press as [...]
A Better Impression
December 6, 2006 – 3:56 pm
The UK’s best-known website auditing firm, ABCe, will move to measuring unique users instead of page impressions as its mandatory measurement metric. Page impressions have come under fire as a metric for several reasons, not least the ability to fake results by splitting a story over several pages.
This is good news for professional blogs: Because [...]
The Ajax Myth
December 5, 2006 – 7:10 pm
Mis-Information Week perpetuates the myth that Web 2.0 is all about AJAX. The standfirst to the article lays the groundwork, suggesting that this is purely about technologies, when surely approaches would be a better way to begin:
To bring your site into the Web 2.0 world, you need to know about Ajax, ActiveX, RSS, and other [...]
The Next Next Big Thing
December 5, 2006 – 11:52 am
…is Who 2.0. That’s according to an interview with Tim O’Reilly, the man who popularised Web 2.0. On Basque news site eitb24, he said that he thinks:
…certain kinds of databases are going to become really big and really useful. We are just in the early stages, digital identity doesn’t really work yet. But that will, [...]
More than a Feeling?
December 3, 2006 – 1:13 pm
Nick Carr comments today about the competing definitions for Web 2.0 and the use of jargon, concluding that at the heart of the matter is … well, nothing. Writing about Tim O’Reilly’s What is Web 2.0? essay, he states:
O’Reilly provided a series of observations and impressions, and, really, that’s the best way to approach any [...]
Semantic Video
November 28, 2006 – 3:43 am
Eyal Oren of DERI, an Irish research insititute, talks about the Semantic Web, and a current project, the semantic desktop. Don’t be frightened: he’s really clear and concise compared to most such explanations.
Assuming you’re now hooked, check out this interview on the subject from DERI’s site.
Oops - both found on Ina’s blog where there’s a [...]
Flog More Stuff 2.0
November 27, 2006 – 6:18 pm
Public Relations in the Web 2.0 era? A new white paper has been produced by Squiz in association with Text 100 PR called Communications 2.0. It’s available here (registration required).
The paper discusses what Web 2.0 is, how businesses might adopt some of the approaches it brings, how their PR will change as a result and [...]
Wisdom and Intelligence
November 27, 2006 – 2:52 pm
One of the cornerstones of most definitions of Web 2.0 is the idea of the Wisdom of Crowds. In Tim O’Reilly’s seminal essay on the subject, he talks about the blogosphere being an example of this:
If it were merely an amplifier, blogging would be uninteresting. But like Wikipedia, blogging harnesses collective intelligence as a kind [...]
Battle of the Bandwaves
November 25, 2006 – 5:08 pm
Fred Wilson has published Comscore data on traffic to Pandora vs Last.fm. The results are very interesting. I had assumed that the two would be pretty much level-pegging. They both do very much the same thing, after all: provide a streaming radio station of new music based on your established tastes. The London-based Last.fm is [...]
