Well, I think they are exciting developments! I have modified thte blog template today so that every post has it’s own web page. Go on try it. Click on the time reference at the bottom of this post…
The reason why this matters to me is that now I can reference an individual post, rather than just on old archive that includes all the posts from that month. For example do you remember this post on the trinity. There is another blog I found that references this post, but when you click on their link it is hard to know which one they meant. Now all that is solved.
What I would really like is: to have ‘tags’ or ‘categories’ that each post is stored under so that it is easy to pull up all posts about a particular thing.
This article on web 2.0 has really got me thinking on this. If you are at all interested in the internet then this article is a must read. Below are a few bullet points that intrigue me from them.
- tagging is a non-heirarchical way of tracking and organising data [see the word cloud on the previous post]. It is a further progress from heirarchy to network.
- the internet empowers the man on the street to publish things and have an effect on the world. It is global mass marketing for the individual.
- The power of communal platforms [eg myspace; ebay] that rely on small individual users have as much influence as the centralised systems.
- Google, tagging, wikipedia re-imagines authority. No longer is it with the CEO’s/editors etc it is with the masses. What most people think is important is important.
- There is generosity that makes the internet work. People give away ideas and information [to a point] that you used to have to pay good money for. Some sites and software are funded by voluntary contributions.
- People rarely launch finished products to the internet; unlike old-style product launches. They let the internet community test and develop the software before final release and therefore shape what it is finally like. I wonder what this says to church planting when people ‘launch’ a church.
- The most successful internet products are simple and modular. Not huge, impressive, complicated products. Rather simpel interface, simple function, built together with other simple products. Google is again a classic example of this. I am most impressed not by complicated and broad functionality, but by simple, powerful functionality.
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