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Blog Archive » The Web’s third frontier
The second phase of web expansion began in 2000-2002, driven by projects such as Blogger, MySpace and, later, Wikipedia. Soon identified as a major turning point, Web 2.0 simply represents the popularization of the second founding principle: “allowing everyone to disseminate their own documents.” Technologies such as AJAX and RSS will make creation and distribution functionalities, which were formerly reserved only for developers, available to a very broad audience. A vast array of programs allows everyone to post all kinds of content on line. The early web’s success and the strength of the entire project are finally allowing related uses to expand on a massive scale.
Bravo Patrice - I have contributed a comment to your blog. by Nov 23
Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008) -
Anecdotes alone don’t prove much. And we still await the long-term neurological and psychological experiments that will provide a definitive picture of how Internet use affects cognition. But a recently published study of online research habits , conducted by scholars from University College London, suggests that we may well be in the midst of a sea change in the way we read and think.
Google Is Failing More - John Battelle's Searchblog
This is, of course, merely a personal example of the drive-by damage done by keyword-driven content — material created to be consumed like info-krill by Google’s algorithms. Find some popular keywords that lead to traffic and transactions, wrap some anodyne and regularly-changing content around the keywords so Google doesn’t kick you out of search results, and watch the dollars roll in as Google steers you life-support systems connected to wallets, i.e, idiot humans. Google has become a snake that too readily consumes its own keyword tail. Identify some words that show up in profitable searches — from appliances, to mesothelioma suits, to kayak lessons — churn out content cheaply and regularly, and you’re done.
In my view both writers and readers of content will need to work harder to get quality content. I know I'd rather read an article by The Economist on any given topic, than one generated by Demand Media. But we, as readers, need more help from Google and the other search engines.
Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried
Beyond content lists
2. No one probably knows who Gary is and thinks he’s just another random commenter. Some comments ARE more important than others, but there’s really no way for me to point out Gary’s comment without doing a new blog post. Even then, if you happen only to see the post that Gary commented on you’d never know that Gary’s comment deserves more attention than the other 54 comments left there.
This folk cartography might be useful for some semiotician or anthropologist. In fact I'll post the best taxonomies and interpretations of these maps submitted to me via comments or email. I'd love to have more folk maps of the internet. You can download a blank PDF here and email it to me when done. UPDATE: A quick-thinking professor in Buenos Aires has extracted an emergent taxonomy from this first set of maps, as explained here . You can see them all here .
A quick demo of some of the new Google Friend Connect features These features are available to anyone using Friend Connect, and are as easy to add to an existing site as previous Friend Connect features. Simply customize your questions about interests, and copy and paste the code Google provides.
Where is the interest graph?
Robert does not know it yet... but pearltrees IS the interest graph he is looking for by Mar 27
hyper-aggregation concept -> a way down pearltrees by Mar 1
So there’s a disparity between what the act means to the person removing versus the person who feels removed. And yet, what’s the value of keeping every name listed that you’ve ever friended? Is there some historic quality?
The Problems With Friends Lists
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Only 27% of tweets contain value, says new study - Holy Kaw!
Media Curation Is Now Consumer-Generated
Paul:
I have three words for this pearl: Learn, Like and Share.
Later I will had more details. Thanks.. by Mar 4
Thanks for this site. As an educator, content creation is prohibitively expensive and starts to become obsolete as soon as it's published. The curation process is a definite solution (and resources are so easy to find). Learning takes on a research pattern that may be daunting to students who expect rote learning; but is now necessary in a world of emergent complexity. by Mar 3
Curation, whether accidental or intentional, is rapidly becoming the future of media and publishing. by Mar 6
The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators
Looks like pearltrees as 6 of the 7 features Robert would like in a "real" curation tool... by Mar 29
Is it worth spending time on creating tags and categories?
Toward user generated organization
The missing link to democratization
Right on, Patrice! You are a champion. I love what you are doing and the velocity of this trajectory. Let's reform education NOW. by Mar 3
Robert Scoble: @laetSgo Pearltrees is one ...
The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators — Scobleizer
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