I don't know if the term has permeated outside of the technogeek and/or educational circles, but we've been talking about Web 2.0 a lot recently. It's not a new program, not a new learning tool, it's a reference to an evolution of the world wide web that happened quietly, obscurely right under our noses.
Web 1.0, as they are now calling the first web species, was static, unidirectional and elite. Static because once a web page was posted it could, and often would, remain exactly the same for a long time.
But in the last few years sites like Blogger, Car Forums, Wikipedia and now it's sister-site Wikispaces, Flikr, Ringo, My Faces, My Space and all these other sites have changed how we web. It's now bidirectional, we read, we absorb and then we give out information. It's fluid, very few pages remain the same for more than a nanosecond, someone is always adding, changing and revising.
Now, I will try creating links:
http://wefeelfine.org/
This is a website that collects fragments from around the web related to feelings. The dots represent text and the squares represent pictures.
http://www.43things.com/
This site is a collection of list of things that people would like to do before they die.
http://www.zillow.com/
From a Google Earth Map, you can do a home search by property value.
http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/thedumpster/
The Dumpster is similar to wefeelfine, with the focus being breakups.
Yeah, a lot of this is like Jerry Springer does the web, peeking into people's lives and emotions. But let's face it, when I blog I'm inviting people to peek into my life. I don't put stuff on here that I'm not willing to share, and anyone who does probably would stand at their front window buck naked too. No common sense, there's a reason it's called the world wide web.
And finally, the last link (if I'm doing this linking correctly), is where I learned about the above links. A fellow blogger:
http://www.srossi.net/Homepage.htm
Post Date - Saturday, February 16, 2008 8:09PM
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