LinkLog
- Why I’m hooked on Twitter — Howard Rheingold thinks about Twtter…
- Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations {Clay Shirky} — Clay’s new book is out this week!
- Attention Economy: The Game — Ulises Mejias has created a paper-based game to help students understand the nature of the attention economy. Interesting…
- Personal Learning Networks (personal and community-focused) « Escape Velocity — Jim Lerman ponders personal learning networks (via Stephen Downes)
- Learning 2050 by Stephen Downes — New talk, new conversation, new slides
- Welcome to the New Web Web 2.0 — Jim Groom’s Intro to Web 2.0
- delicious blog » rss has a flavor — del.icio.us making its RSS feeds better… all my subscriptions are of the “improved” variety. [via Bryan Alexander]
February 29th, 2008 at 4:24 am
I don’t know Jim well enough to tease him thusly, but you’ll recognize the flavor of this whinge: So long as “advances” in “the web” are primarily reliant on proprietary tech and hosted apps (as contrasted with open source tech built on standards and increased individual empowerment) then I think we might better call it Web 0.2.
Still wearing my best-with-any-browser badge on my sleeve, I reckon.
Waking up from the utopian dream, however, there’s an appealing argument that what we’re seeing with the googlization of everything is akin to the switch from Route 66 to it’s replacement with Interstates. In such a view I’m just an old fogey who prefers Nat King Cole to FlavaFlave.
February 29th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Beau– I think you are barking up the wrong tree here and exhibiting a fundamental misunderstanding of what we are talking about when we talk about web 2.0. No matter how you use the web, you are reliant on a host of technologies that you aren’t in control of yourself. Then you draw an arbitrary line and call “hosted”. Web 2.0– particularly in Jim’s work with WordPress– is about harnessing the openness of data and open source software to create a richer learning environment. In my opninion hosted application isn’t a problem if it is freely accessible and the data has transparent access.
As for “Best in any browser”– I’ve given up on that, the same way I don’t expect the world around me to accommodate my desire to use fountain pens, telegraphs and horseless carriages. Just because something has been around for a long time doesn’t mean it needs to be accommodated still, not when there are plenty of alternatives freelyavailable. Pretty much every application that ed tech folks are talking about when they talk about Web 2.0 will run just fine on Linux and FireFox, both open source, but not just “any” browser.
February 29th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Your remark on pens harmonizes well, I think, with mine on Route 66. More likely I’m just chafing at the loss in value of some of the intellectual investments I made in 1995. I was once ahead of the pack; now hopelessly behind.
February 29th, 2008 at 9:02 am
You’re on a different path doing different things… a path I think you want to be on. That’s not a bad thing. I think one of the great things about the ideas seeing some focus in the whole web 2.0 conversation is the immense value of non-technical participation. In the old web, being up to date with tech skills was a kind of gatekeeping device. Now the people making non-technical stuff are more important than the geeks who love them.
Plus, almost everyone is hopelessly behind. Were it not for the ubergeeks who make open access to data and methods to mash and mix and combine, it would be obvious