Russell Harrison's List: Web 2.0

• The idea of attempting to compete with, or defy, the naming conventions so painstakingly worked out over a few thousand troll-years of effort at Wikipedia, is actually very foolish.

• A redirect is much easier to track use of
• If it turns out that more than half the links are to "sustainable trades" then maybe that needs a separate article?
• fairly blunt statement that "this means the same as that, or can't be understood except in the context of that"

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• Trying to guess the structure of a wiki in advance won't work.
• evolve into the optimal organization
• start with as little structure as possible

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• takes too much time to incorporate other people's input

• afraid to edit the 'real' content.
• there is virtually no risk in giving beginners free rein

  • Extreamly important and hard to communicate to individuals used to traditional control systems
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• impede the adoption and long-term success of your knowledge base
• wikiChampion resources are spent making training pages,

• contributes "truth as I know it"
• increases the likelihood of innovation

• Projects where workers choose the technology have a much better chance of succeeding than ones where IT chooses

  • This is why the most important aspect of Web 2.0 tools is how easily they can be integrated into the workflow of each user.
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• Among the businesses that said they were dissatisfied with their Web 2.0 projects, 36% said that their information-technology departments found, vetted and rolled out the tools. Only 11% of satisfied businesses followed that model.

• with increased power its intended audience shrinks
• those who overspecialize will not do very well
• Simplicity is power
• Unless someone else makes it even more simple
• the site consisted of almost nothing
• wherever you want
• complexity makes web applications slow and clumsy
• choose exactly which features they want to use
• open the application up via an API

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• Author: Luca Cremonini Source: http://www.railsonwave.it/railsonwave/2007/1/2/web-2-0-map URL: http://www.railsonwave.com/assets/2006/12/25/Web_2.0_Map.svg Note: The cloud-map picture above (constructed by Luca Cremonini on December 25, 2006, for railsonw - Russell Harrison on 2008-02-16