Garry Reid's List: module 3

• One ingredient of its meaning is certainly Ajax, which I can still only just bear to use without scare quotes. Basically, what "Ajax" means is "Javascript now works." And that in turn means that web-based applications can now be made to work much more like desktop ones.

  • there is now a plethora of web based software available. what matters now is not what sort of computer and os you have, but having a web browser and a fast internet connection.
• 2. Democracy
  
  The second big element of Web 2.0 is democracy.

  • examples: who controls the news: sites such as Reddit and digg

  • the web is user driven or user controlled. Not controlled by elites.
• The most dramatic example of Web 2.0 democracy is not in the selection of ideas, but their production.

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• • syndication is a feature of Web2.0 the ability to keep a check on updates without the effort to load up the website everytime.
• • being able to seach and sort for information.
• • Tags also a way of a user classifying infomation according to how they actually see it. User defined.

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• There’s a lot more to blogs than just that, but even for that purpose alone, it’s an amazing way to exercise a right to free speech, and to reach potentially millions of people with your thoughts.

  • an example of Web 2.0 and democracy

• Web readers tend to scan text online and read text offline.