A link? Web 2.0 and broadband
Sonja Kangas at techsoup reviewed the keynote address of Petteri Järvinen at a workshop workshop: 'Social media in the Crossroads of physical, digital and virtual worlds'.
Sonia asks:
Is it just another technology-driven trend that really makes no difference in the long run?
I think broadband is an accelerator. Web 2.0 funtionality, in the long term, is evolutionary not revolutionary.
She then goes on to say
"Content were not published globally but it certainly was published for a certain audience. Another example with a 'global appearance' is fanzines."
I agree with her about users creating content as well. I co-produced a local TV show in New York called ZineTV in the mid 90's. It covered the self-publishing world of "zines" and "fanzines".
As a "thought cloud" index Factsheet 5 was probably the equivalent of Technorati. Sets and subsets of interest were and are then able to self organize off the index. The web offers immediacy of the click.
However I often compare blogging as the equivalent of the Kodak Brownie camera which simplified a complex process and enpowered personal expression and the perpetual indexing of the great and banal.
Finally she wonders:
Newspaper will most definitely change because already now they are already full of old information when they are delivered.
For the web/blogs/newspapers it is only old if we haven't been aware of it that it is "old news". If we have awareness and want more depth than there is no difference at least in my expierence of newspaper reporting and say a blog reporting on a blog reporting on a blog ....
