Comments on: Build Your Own Boeing http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/build-your-own-boeing/ One Damn Thing Leads to Another Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:55:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Alan http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/build-your-own-boeing/#comment-308 Alan Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:05:47 +0000 http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/?p=207#comment-308 I find this depressing not because of the end of importance of individual blogs but because of the end of the understanding of the critical unimportance of individual blogs. If blogs were anything they are a source of the ability to trap a comment and have that trapping noted in Google rankings. For example right now I have inadvertently become a hub of discontent over CBC's Freestyle. I wrote little of note other than I knew the host as a pal back I undergrad but for whatever reason am #1 on Google. You add a few more posts like that and I become a media pundit - except I am not. I am merely one of those little whirlpools in the river of the internet that collects the thoughts and attention of others. Similarly, my masterful work on A Good Beer Blog ranks above or below the wikipedia post on "beer" as well as the homepage of Miller brewing. But I am just one wee voice in a topic that actually has few voices but a lot of interested readers. The above is what is reasonably described as a Web 1.0 description. What does the event of amalgamating under OSM do for that sort of voice? Gets it maybe a little of the change found in the pockets of foolish VCs who never heard of last wave of fools in 1999. It also removes them from the Google rank as the borg will only count as one hit for any of the authors. The voice as a result has become muted. That I think is what Web 2.0 will be about. Layers of useless intervention between my receiption of your thought. And waste. But get in on the party now as long as you know what is happening and you want to go for the ride. It may take a couple years but the emperors lack of clothes will be noted soon enough. I find this depressing not because of the end of importance of individual blogs but because of the end of the understanding of the critical unimportance of individual blogs. If blogs were anything they are a source of the ability to trap a comment and have that trapping noted in Google rankings. For example right now I have inadvertently become a hub of discontent over CBC’s Freestyle. I wrote little of note other than I knew the host as a pal back I undergrad but for whatever reason am #1 on Google. You add a few more posts like that and I become a media pundit - except I am not. I am merely one of those little whirlpools in the river of the internet that collects the thoughts and attention of others. Similarly, my masterful work on A Good Beer Blog ranks above or below the wikipedia post on “beer” as well as the homepage of Miller brewing. But I am just one wee voice in a topic that actually has few voices but a lot of interested readers. The above is what is reasonably described as a Web 1.0 description.

What does the event of amalgamating under OSM do for that sort of voice? Gets it maybe a little of the change found in the pockets of foolish VCs who never heard of last wave of fools in 1999. It also removes them from the Google rank as the borg will only count as one hit for any of the authors. The voice as a result has become muted. That I think is what Web 2.0 will be about. Layers of useless intervention between my receiption of your thought. And waste. But get in on the party now as long as you know what is happening and you want to go for the ride. It may take a couple years but the emperors lack of clothes will be noted soon enough.

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