Web 2.0 - some videos

Well, I am on the mailing list for the New York Technology Meetup, and a link to this video just came across the mailing list:

The theme that I really take away from this video is that form has been decoupled from content, whereas in the early days of the Internet, content and form were pretty much inseparable - you didn't have things such a RSS, Atom, iCal, XML, and many other enabling technologies of this revolution. As a direct result of form being separated from content, you have people who would either have no knowledge of or no inclination to setup a website doing just that (such as this blog - I'm focused on content here, not formatting or how to make it all work together - I'll let the creative types deal with that). That's not to say that it would be impossible for me to do, it would simply take much more time out of my busy life to handle than this blog does. Pretty much what I do here is post, check out Google Analytics for the site every few days, maybe check for some problems and where this is in search positioning with Google Webmaster Tools every few days, and that's about it. The latter two are simply because I want to make this more useful for you, my readers (of whom I have a lot more than I thought :) ).

I think that the video does an outstanding job of showcasing the types of things that can be done with Web 2.0 technology, particularly XML and mashups. This blog, for example can be consumed either straight up in the browser, or through your favorite RSS reader, which itself can present the content in various ways.

While researching for this post, I also found a video that is both ominous and humorous at the same time. I'll let the video speak for itself, but suffice it to say that I don't agree with it. Unfortunately, I can't find the video again (seriously). Which leads me to another point, right along the same lines - the Internet is full of information. Everything is miscellaneous. When I saw that video, I could have tagged it on del.icio.us (which link to my bookmarks is in the right hand column if you're reading this on the original website - if not it's here. The information is ours to organize, in a way that is meaningful to us.