[Sigia-l] Web 2.0 99% bad

[James Aylett]

Ziya Oz wrote:

> But what's further interesting to me is the significance of this: do
> we just give up or do we design tools/functions that encourage
> further user contribution/participation? Do we see Web 2.0 as a fad
> or an opportunity to bolster social aspects software/systems?

My personal feeling is that it will take a long time for the majority (or even a significantly larger minority) of people to want to contribute content to the web. It will probably require a fairly major social shift (which will happen gradually), and might take a generation. However that shouldn't stop us building the tools to encourage that change, or to enable those people who do want to contribute and participate.

That way, by the time the shift has happened, the tools will be much better, and we'll be able to cater far more effectively for what human beings actually want to do with computers, which is not typing HTML (sorry, Microformats), or choosing all the details of layout (sorry, MySpace). (Although no, I don't know what it actually is :-)

IMHO, of course :-)

James

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James Aylett
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