Web 3.0

Nostalgia for (and in) the Internet Era

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Maybe it’s my looming birthday (40th) that’s got me longing for the past. Or the fact that I’ve been listening to “The Suburbs” by Arcade Fire, an album (old word) that evokes memories of my childhood. Or the devastating hair loss I’ve suffered in the last decade. Probably the hair loss. In any case, I [...]

Best Explanation Yet of Web 3.0, the Semantic Web

Monday, May 10th, 2010

My class spent about an hour today thinking and talking about Web 2.0. What struck me about our conversation was how much the class already knew about Web 2.0–and how mainstream most Web 2.0 applications have become. The social media, in other words, have become almost transparent. We use them so much, we don’t really [...]