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...

Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web

w/r/t database-driven scholarship: this talk by the guy who invented the WWW addresses some of the sweeping changes we can expect as the organizing principle of the Web evolves away from a system of linked documents to one of linked data, effectively changing the landscape from a network of silo-style databases into a massive single database.