Thursday, November 27th, 2008...7:15 pm
The web will not stay strangled !
2.0 wave has brought a lot of fresh air on the web. Suddenly everybody was able, without being an engineer, to create or to bring something of his own on the web. Blogs, youtube, flick’r, myspace… Creativity blossomed out everywhere and still does. A lot of talents have been discovered thanks to these revolution.
If everybody can create anything freely on the web, could we say it has become a free world ? I do not think so. I think is quite difficult to access to the deep web, to creation that my neighbour or someone in greenland has done ?
How do we access to the web today ? Search engine (google), portal (yahoo), a combination of vote and ranking system (digg, stumble), luck (when your 8 month daughter played with you keybord),… Have you noticed that you never choose directly where you want to go. Each time we let an algorythm, some people, or who-know-who decide for us the panel of website in which we will have to choose.
Will that last ?
4 Comments
December 1st, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Very relevant point indeed. After content creation, the next wave might be the decentralization of access to content. Let’s see.
December 1st, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Yes, anyway social medias are all about decentralization.
December 5th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Is it any different than our access to other information/media? A few TV channels control most views, a group of movie studios release the most watched movies, a small number of music labels popularize most major new artists…
At least now we can more easily vote on stuff that we like via digg and others! Our tiny voices can be heard… sort of.
December 6th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Hi Healy, good to see you there.
Yes I see a least two big differences.
- First, the fathers of the web thought this network as a decentralized one with a free access. Television was though, in the beginning at least, as a tool to educate people. So from the start the idea of television is a centralized media whereas the first idea of the internet is not.
- Second Today on television you cannot create content if you are not part of a channel, whereas everyone can put its content on the web.
So why would you accept the idea that some of your content
is rules by others that centralizes what was once though as a decentralized media. Even on digg and others there is a centralization effect though it is an aggregate of tiny voices.
I do not think that centralized media are evil, that is not my point. I think it is interesting to work on offering people a real decentralized media. And I think the web is a real historic opportunity to do so.
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