Comments on: Searching for the truth online http://www.theawesomeweb.co.uk/blog/searching-for-the-truth-online/ Registered in England and Wales. Company Number 6971536. © 2009 The Awesome Web Company. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:06:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Daniel Miller http://www.theawesomeweb.co.uk/blog/searching-for-the-truth-online/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Daniel Miller Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:54:05 +0000 http://www.jenny-bee.net/2008/01/28/searching-for-the-truth-online/#comment-42 Well the article and its accompanying video are horrible and in that sense proving their own point--i.e. they don't understand this particular information/technology landscape either. The web has been overhyped and overvalued since the beginning and "Web 2.0" is no exception. And in some sense it is a self-feeding machine now, with so much of that hype originating in the navel-gazing blindrooms of the nerdosphere. I think the long-term winners are those that focus on tools that solve age-old problems of information and communication, or introduce new constraints on the collective load introduced by all these new technologies. Otherwise we're just going to continue to have cycles of premature load-blowing over each new trend and a collective retreat when we realize it's much better when we take our time and enjoy the process and respect one another. And we'll have somewhat sad press like that above each time we cycle through. Well the article and its accompanying video are horrible and in that sense proving their own point–i.e. they don’t understand this particular information/technology landscape either. The web has been overhyped and overvalued since the beginning and “Web 2.0″ is no exception. And in some sense it is a self-feeding machine now, with so much of that hype originating in the navel-gazing blindrooms of the nerdosphere.

I think the long-term winners are those that focus on tools that solve age-old problems of information and communication, or introduce new constraints on the collective load introduced by all these new technologies. Otherwise we’re just going to continue to have cycles of premature load-blowing over each new trend and a collective retreat when we realize it’s much better when we take our time and enjoy the process and respect one another. And we’ll have somewhat sad press like that above each time we cycle through.

]]> By: Dave Briggs http://www.theawesomeweb.co.uk/blog/searching-for-the-truth-online/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Dave Briggs Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:48:05 +0000 http://www.jenny-bee.net/2008/01/28/searching-for-the-truth-online/#comment-41 It's nonsense isn't it? People have always been told not to believe everything they read. It's as applicable to the web as it is a newspaper. I know whose blogs I trust more than others, and we have the means to filter them with technology like RSS etc. It’s nonsense isn’t it? People have always been told not to believe everything they read. It’s as applicable to the web as it is a newspaper. I know whose blogs I trust more than others, and we have the means to filter them with technology like RSS etc.

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