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Web 2.0 the New Black?

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Digital Storytelling and Social media are evolving everyday at a rapid speed. Whats in one day, is out the next and the web is becoming an easier place to explore. From the articles of Tim O’Reilly’s “What is Web 2.0?”, Bryan Alexander’s Web 2.0 Storytelling and Seven Things You Should Know about Creative Commons, gives a description of what one thing was a few years ago as is compared to what it has become. Tim O’Reilly described this essentially as Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0.

As each article explains in-depth a list of what might fall in the category of what is now Web 2.0 (or hip to the now web era) I would like to focus on what really stuck out to me. Things such as google, twitter, blogging, Flickr, etc. are what I and many of my fellow students have grown up with. This is what i consider digital storytelling. Expressing yourself through pictures via Flickr, online diaries (essentially) via blogs and social networks via twitter, Facebook and my space have been how I have told my story through the web and how I was first brought into the “web world”.

These articles described these methods of storytelling as a means of history. What Web 1.0 had is the history of how Web 2.0 began. Much like Tim O’Reilly article pointed out “The “blogosphere” can be thought of as a new, peer-to-peer equivalent to Usenet and bulletin-boards, the conversational watering holes of the early internet.”
It also brought me back to Gardner Campbell’s Article and Video on Cyberinfastructure. Much of these articles taught me a lot about how these different methods of storytelling impact your life everyday, for example i found the short remark by Tom Coates very interesting

“Tom Coates remarks on the significance of the permalink:


It may seem like a trivial piece of functionality now, but it was effectively the device that turned weblogs from an ease-of-publishing phenomenon into a conversational mess of overlapping communities. For the first time it became relatively easy to gesture directly at a highly specific post on someone else’s site and talk about it. Discussion emerged. Chat emerged. And – as a result – friendships emerged or became more entrenched. The permalink was the first – and most successful – attempt to build bridges between weblogs.

These articles really helped me understand what Digital Storytelling was about, and even explained a little further what I thought I already knew.

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