Thursday, October 8, 2009

Web Squared

Tim O'Reilly is a great source for intelligence on emerging technologies and practices. His recent white paper, "Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On" (link here or .pdf here) is an excellent and essential summary of how the new media landscape has changed since the mid-2000s and includes many provocative insights into where things are heading. As critics, we ought to be at least up to this level in terms of our awareness of the state of the art...

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  1. and i think we can begin to parse (to use a verb i love to misuse and that i was happy to see the virtual academic spouting as well) what these shifts might mean. i think within them we might begin to discern the contours of whatever larger shifts seem to be part and parcel of the moment we are in...

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  2. On the subject of fetish-(academic) words, Vivian Sobchack's fave seems to be "apposite".

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