The Soul of Web 2.0
Mark Pesce,
the human network,
Nov 10, 2010
Really good article looking at the web from the long view and identifying key elements at the 'soul' of web 2.0:
- sharing - "This idea of sharing is foundational to everything we do on the Web today. It becomes painfully obvious when it's been overlooked."
- connecting - "The Web today is all about connecting. That's its single most important feature, the one which is serving as an organizing principle for nearly all activity on it."
- iteration - "Nothing is ever complete, nor ever perfect. The perfect is the enemy of the good, so if you wait for perfection, you will never release."
- openness - "Have you created space for your work to be re-used, to be incorporated, to be pieced apart and put back together again? Or is it opaque, seamless, and closed?"
Is it really any coincidence that these are exactly the principles we advocate for online learning? We are working in the greatest lab ever invented, and drawing on the lessons of a billion contributors to forge the fundamentals of e-learning. No, it's no coincidence at all.
- sharing - "This idea of sharing is foundational to everything we do on the Web today. It becomes painfully obvious when it's been overlooked."
- connecting - "The Web today is all about connecting. That's its single most important feature, the one which is serving as an organizing principle for nearly all activity on it."
- iteration - "Nothing is ever complete, nor ever perfect. The perfect is the enemy of the good, so if you wait for perfection, you will never release."
- openness - "Have you created space for your work to be re-used, to be incorporated, to be pieced apart and put back together again? Or is it opaque, seamless, and closed?"
Is it really any coincidence that these are exactly the principles we advocate for online learning? We are working in the greatest lab ever invented, and drawing on the lessons of a billion contributors to forge the fundamentals of e-learning. No, it's no coincidence at all.
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