Text is said to be linear, when written on a paper. When it is written on a machine it is in a digital form. Digital text is more flexible, is moveable. Hypertext is above all, it can link to other pages and websites.
Most early websites were written by html <HTML>, <p> is a structural element referring to a paragraph, <li> is also structural element referring to “list item”. As html expanded, more elements were added, such elements defined how content would be formatted. In other words, form and content became inseparable in html. So at this point or period digital text can do better. Form and content can be separated.
RSS feeds are one of the new technologies that made digital text do more, like if you go to cnn.com and submit to its feeds you can start getting the news without going there or even having them in a small box or section on your website. The source is an XML file that has links to the content with descriptions, so the data inside is brought, and we can have those news separated.
Blogging is a new technology as well, which made digital text richer, there’s a blog born every half second. Blogs are not just a text, it can be videos like you tube.com. XML facilitates automated data exchange.
Now the question is: “who will organize the data?”
dili.cio.us, dig, google, yahoo, live msn…
XML + u & me created a data based backed web, a database-backed web is different, so the web is different. This makes you conclude that we are the web. How?
When we post and then tag pictures, we are teaching the machine, each time we forge a link we teach it a new thing. Think of the 100 billion times per day humans click on a web page. Than you will find the machine is being teached in a very intensive way, final conclusion! The machine is US!!!
Digital text is no longer just linking information, same for hypertext and as well for the web.
The web today is linking people, WEB 2.0 is linking people.
We can define Web 2.0 by people sharing, trading and collaborating.
But! We will need to rethink a few things, such as:
Copyright, authorship, identity, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love family, Ourselves.
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