One of the first images I uploaded to my Flickr acccount!
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Baby image - worried, but precious!
I'm testing out how Flickr and blogging work. Came across this concerned little face and just had to hold onto it.
this, that, and the next Thing
Okay, so I'm up in the wee hours, concerned about finishing my first Thing post. How did Karen rope me into this? I'm going to try putting in an image so I can practice here before posting a draft at 23 Things. Inserting works, linking doesn't seem to. Phooey. Wanted to show both ways.
Now, if I could just figure out how to place the attribution label for the photo just so...
Photo from Kingdafy at Flickr
Friday, May 18, 2007
What's this 2.0 stuff?
So what is Web 2.0?
Well, Wikipedia offers several basic characteristics, and this concept map gives another vague idea.
The term hasn't made the OED yet (you can doublecheck me on that here). And there isn't one real definite definition that "they" all agree on.
So, we'll go with an informal, sort of wiggly working definition for our 23 Things purposes. Let's just consider Web 2.0 to be the kind of web where you, the user, can create and manipulate content. This isn't just surfing the web, this is making the surfboard and/or the waves.
The 2.0 part draws on the numbering convention for newer versions of software. Web 1.0 was great, right? But the "interactivity" we considered to be so cool was, well, rather one-way: someone created a page with a button or a link, and we clicked it. Sure, we hyperactively followed hyperlinks and felt very active (and overwhelmed at times), but we were readers not authors - unless we learned web authoring skills (html code, how to ftp, etc.).
Now, with Web 2.0, we can be those authors with little to no technical know-how! Further, the benefit is more than instant publishing: there is more of a social element. Many of these 2.0 tools allow for and, in some cases rely on, group participation. Conversations start up and continue and change course with amazing flexibility. And not all conversational exchanges need to be text-based. Places like YouTube and Flickr allow for media rich dialogues. (when we get to that week, I think you'll see what I mean!)
So, let's flex those social and creative muscles to explore Web 2.0 possibilities together!
Well, Wikipedia offers several basic characteristics, and this concept map gives another vague idea.
The term hasn't made the OED yet (you can doublecheck me on that here). And there isn't one real definite definition that "they" all agree on.
So, we'll go with an informal, sort of wiggly working definition for our 23 Things purposes. Let's just consider Web 2.0 to be the kind of web where you, the user, can create and manipulate content. This isn't just surfing the web, this is making the surfboard and/or the waves.
The 2.0 part draws on the numbering convention for newer versions of software. Web 1.0 was great, right? But the "interactivity" we considered to be so cool was, well, rather one-way: someone created a page with a button or a link, and we clicked it. Sure, we hyperactively followed hyperlinks and felt very active (and overwhelmed at times), but we were readers not authors - unless we learned web authoring skills (html code, how to ftp, etc.).
Now, with Web 2.0, we can be those authors with little to no technical know-how! Further, the benefit is more than instant publishing: there is more of a social element. Many of these 2.0 tools allow for and, in some cases rely on, group participation. Conversations start up and continue and change course with amazing flexibility. And not all conversational exchanges need to be text-based. Places like YouTube and Flickr allow for media rich dialogues. (when we get to that week, I think you'll see what I mean!)
So, let's flex those social and creative muscles to explore Web 2.0 possibilities together!
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