Well Said!
August 20, 2006 at 7:18 pm Janie Hermann 2 comments
I am bookmarking this brief interview with Dan Nova for reference in future classes, lectures, and workshops on 2.0 — it is concise and clear. In particular, I will be including Dan’s way of explaining the key difference between Web 1.o and 2.0:
You talk a lot about Web 1.0, the Internet boom in the late ’90s, and the next wave, Web 2.0. What’s the difference?
When you look at 1.0, it was really the democratization of access to information. Whether you’re sitting in a Harvard law library or a row house in Dublin or a grass hut in Africa, as long as you could access the Internet, you had access to the same information as everyone else.
And Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is really the democratization of participation. When you think about the blogs and the wikis and the MySpaces, what’s really happening is now everyone has a voice. Your currency in the 2.0 world is only based on the strength and credibility of your writing or your argument. We’ve gone from where it used to be “If you build it, they will come.” Now it’s “If they build it, they will come.” I’m actually more excited about 2.0 than I was about 1.0.
Just thought I would share in case others wanted to bookmark it too.
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Robert J. Lackie | August 20, 2006 at 9:09 pm
I just read the article, Janie, and I agree with you–the article interviewing Dan is short and very readable concerning Web 2.0. You can also almost hear the excitement in his voice! Thanks for sharing, and we should share it with librarians at our CJRLC meeting this week, too.
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Janie L. Hermann | August 20, 2006 at 9:51 pm
Good Plan Robert… just what I was thinking (and why I was looking too!)