This blog is about web 2.0, traditional media and advertising, how they affect each other and how they affect us (especially me). It is also about stuff I like such as art, design, animation, music and photography. what I feel like writing. Nothing written here should be taken too seriously...
This post started as a late night tweet summarizing (in less than 140 characters) the story of writing hence the title of the post. Here’s the original tweet.
From 4,000 BC to 1992: Pre-web era. Writing
The representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols is known as a writing system. Around the 4th millennium BC, the complexity of trade and administration outgrew the power of memory, and writing became a more dependable method of recording and presenting transactions in a permanent form
From 1992 to 1997: Web 1.0. Online copywriting
Copywriting is the use of words to promote a person, business, opinion or idea. The term may be applied to any content regardless of media (print, radio, television, or online media).
From 1997 to 2004: Web 2.0. Blogging
A blog (a contraction of the term “weblog”) is a type of website with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
From 2004 to 2008: Social web. Posting
Like in Facebook when u post stuff 2 ur friend’s wall such as:
sup? will upload pics from last party… check’em l8er
From 2008 to present time: Live web. RT
RT @my_tweep EPIC WIN ->I haz my pics O_o <-LOL or WTF?! :D
(If you don’t understand this last chapter you can check what people are saying right now at twitter.com)
I just came from my small town’s antique street marquet where I saw a cool 70s jump-hour watch exactly like this one, except for the brand. The one I saw had the Sears brand on it.
At the stall, after checking that it still worked, I asked the price. It started at 70 €, dropped to 65 without asking and after a while it was already 50 €.
It wasn’t obviously new, a few scratches and wear here and there but the overall condition was good. While I was still thinking it over, it came to my mind that I could Google for it on the iPhone and check some background data about the model.
An excellent mashup, or a geo-localized short story written on Google maps bubbles by writer Charles Cummings. I’m halfway through it and about to fly to Edimburgh. Don’t tell me the end!
Well, history repeats. A couple of weeks ago I found a gem on YouTube called Daft Hands, where a couple of hands with text on it danced to Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (over 16 Million views as I’m writing this). The video spawned dozens of replies of people with text all over the body dancing to the tune.
My surprise was when a week ago I saw a commercial on TV by Spanish telecom Telefónica, where two hands with the terms of a special offer danced to a copycat of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.
Talking about Web 2.0 changing traditional media!
Here’s a nice video where you can see both and judge for yourself. First the commercial and next the original version.
Looking for some info on Google Maps API, I stumbled on this project where German artist Aram Bartholl plays with the Google satellite by placing physical Google Maps markers on the ground.
Here’s a picture:
Check Bartholl’s other projects where he explores the interactions between the web and the physical world.
The data web, like the document web involves standards as HTML, Cascading Style Sheets and so on, all this things were enabled by royalty free standards. The same on the data web.
All the information needed to find the perfect coffee is available online and available but not very usable. You could still pull it off after a few clicks and searches on your internet enabled mobile device but this is not the point.
The cool thing would be that some algorithm (AI?) cross-referenced the data and produced the right answer at the right moment and this is where the Semantic Web or Intelligent Web comes to rescue.
Think of what you could achieve by cross-referencing air-traffic information and nutrition patterns when triying to stop the spreading of a disease.
Learn all about it in this excellent Tim Berners-Lee video.
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