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Thursday, July 27, 2006
Trusting the new Web
Source: Technology Review
James Fallows spent a couple of weeks living on Web 2.0. He swapped newspapers for RSS feeds, podcasts for radio, Word for Writely. He used Google Calendar, Wikipedia, Google Earth and Windows Live Local and more. Among his many observations? The world isn't all-digital all the time, yet. So while Writely is great, you can't work on it on an airplane, so Word will stay. Fallows defines the new Web as an outpouring of knowledge and sees it as "inspiring" and "deeply human." But also potentially tragic because every bit of the Web enterprise operates on trust and if that trust is misplaced we may recognize that "the Web 2.0 era belonged to younger, more trusting people."
Posted by mwelch at 07:03 AM
