November 21st, 2007
Web 2.0 Style is fading fast…
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Much raucous bravo-ing from someone who is REALLY sick of that look, and who essentially still designs pages like they did in 1999 simply because I think they looked better.
Also, I have mixed feelings regarding all these AGGREGATORS that Web 2 seems to rest upon. Having been online since 1994 I notice what the advent of RSS has done to blogging, journals, et cetera. What happens is communities aren’t as communal any more, because you have this constant influx and outflux of random readers – a few die-hards stay, but an RSS reader is something like a remote control and web-surfers become channelhoppers.
Finally, calling it Web 2 is stupid, and also misleading. There’s another thing called “Internet 2″ which is a corporatist attempt to get control of net content in such a way as to make more money and also retain control of what gets seen by who, and this “Internet 2″ thing is a Very Bad Thing, even moreso than Web 2.0…and the confusion does not help.
(And what’s with this 2.0 part? Will we all hop online one day and find it’s all upgraded to “Web 2.5″?)
Xenotrope
November 22nd, 2007
I agree… very nice.
Jason
November 23rd, 2007