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There is a fever of anticipation over the imminent release of a tablet-style computer from Apple – let’s call it the iSlate [Thursday Update — actually, let’s call it the iPad — I stand by everything else in the post, though]. Nobody outside the company knows very much about how it works or its specifications, In this online radio interview, internet visionary Jaron Lanier talks about the danger of Web 2.0 turning us into a collectivist digital mush. He’s got a new book out, so doing a lot of PAs lately. The problems, to paraphrase, are these: Collectivisation We’ve reached for the wisdom of crowds, and this silences individual Some bloggers do something called ‘live blogging’ from conferences, wherein they aim to note, more-or-less verbatim, the content of the sessions they are attending. I am far too busy with other weighty intellectual matters at conferences - Twitter messages about the speakers’ funny haircuts and who else is here from Twitter — so it takes Many thanks to comrade Mayfield for his excellent presentation to the collected officers of the Social Media Commissariat … sorry Club, this evening. To cut his talk short, he’d been thinking about the parallels between the birth of social media and the birth of print itself, as described in Elizabeth The UK’s best-known website auditing firm, ABCe, will move to measuring unique users instead of page impressions as its mandatory measurement metric. Page impressions have come under fire as a metric for several reasons, not least the ability to fake results by splitting a story over several pages. This is good news for professional blogs: Because Mis-Information Week perpetuates the myth that Web 2.0 is all about AJAX. The standfirst to the article lays the groundwork, suggesting that this is purely about technologies, when surely approaches would be a better way to begin: To bring your site into the Web 2.0 world, you need to know about Ajax, ActiveX, RSS, and other |             | |||
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