The phrase "Web 2.0" means lots of different things depending on the
context, and people disagree about what exactly that term even means.
But one thing I take it to mean is the fragmentation of information on
the internet that was enabled by RSS feeds and then by the networking
of content and accounts.
This fragmentation, or distribution to put it in perhaps a better
light, means that instead of having one pamphletware homepage, even
casual internet users often have at least one or two other places where
content is stored and updated online and, more significantly, where
their identity is updated. Do you use Facebook?
Flickr? Del.icio.us?
These sites all have content that elaborates on your identity, and if
that content is not at least accessible from your homepage, then it's
not attached to you.
I like messing with web technology, so my own homepage has gone through
dozens of iterations from many flat HTML pages to my most recent
customized PmWiki installation. But in
the last year or two I have come to use so many other sites for
different purposes that much of my content is not posted on my own
site. For instance, like lots of other people, the more I tweet, the less I blog on my
own site. And now that I found Posterous,
which lets me post to a blog by email, I've stopped posting to my own
blog altogether.
So tonight I embraced the inevitable fragmentation of the 21st Century
internet, despite the efforts of social aggregators like Friendfeed, Swurl and Socialthing, and I
recalibrated my website as a
portal, almost a placeholder, with links to the other sites where I
update content. In effect, It's back to a pamphletware site, but linked
to much more dynamic sites than I imagined when I had my first page in
1994.
Embrace the fragmented web. New ways of distributing content
necessitate new ways of displaying it. Welcome to the web 2.0 homepage:
http://kaplan-myrth.ca.
Boffin + Wonk
A journal of internet technology law and policy
Andy is an internet policy advisor with the Government of Canada, with a background in technology law and an interest in how collaborative and social technologies are reshaping industries, governments, societies and the world. See more from me at http://kaplan-myrth.ca.
Unless otherwise noted, photographs, videos and audio files on this website are copyright 2000-2009 in Canada by Andy Kaplan-Myrth. All other content on this website, unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence that allows you to use, reuse and modify this content as long as you give me credit and put your own new work under the same Creative Commons licence.
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