Live blog for today's session.
First talk is "Web 2.0 - Whatever Happened to Web 1.0?" by David Hyett, Head of Information & Records Management, British Antarctic Survey
This will be the sceptics view of Web 2.0. Joint paper with
David Wattam
David is head of Information Management for the British Antartic Survey- background is in library and information management.
WEb 1.0 and Web 2.0 mean different things to different people.
Web is now almost unrecognisable from its start in 1990s
Two different focuses: move towards greater interactivity and move towards better usability and accessibility. With these collide?
What's bad with Web 2.0? Things aren't inherently bad, but have risks. e.g. diversion of scarce resources.
Is Web 2.0 relevant to core user's needs?
Web 2.0 can be boring & confusing. Can overwhelem users with choice? e.g. twitter, video, streaming, feature creep ...
Blog plugins are an example of feature creep .
SImilarities to dotcom era.
Note clear what will be the winner in the various Web 2.0 areas.
90% of blogs are boring.
As long as the consolidation is not Microsoft
He says 90% of blogs are boring... but "Sturgeon’s Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap."
How true
Over 90% of the books in the library are boring - to me, anyway
does that mean we are boring because we are doing this?
:-)
You don't have to read blogs.
I haven't read that many books in my library to know that
The risks of relying on 3rd parties - example of Amazon's S3 outage over wekend
but was anybody really bothered that they went down?
Bad time to be an Apple mobileme customer ;-)
When Rackspace goes down the affect is much worse
Doesn't take into account that the process of writing a blog may be more important than the product
I think there's a few things wrong with google
yes, i can't get my pages at the top of the list :)
heh me neither
The good things about Web 2.0 - can add value, UGC, integration of data, democratisation, ...
my blog is boring ... I don't care ... I find it useful to document stuff. never discourage a developer to document stuff. :)
Yes, reflectiuve aspects of blogs can be vert important
if 90% of blogs are boring can i suggest he reads the other 10%!
Redevelopment of BAS Web site.
How is the stream, Andy?
Really should ban talking about Web 2.0 and focus on capabilities - too ambiguous otherwise
I can't get at it still, Brian
this talk is pretty much like 90% of blogs then? Vanity publishing...
Platform problem, SAlly?
@gnozu lol
:)
No I have tried on several machines here and none of them can play it.
Brian Kelly
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