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Will Web2.0 ever mean anything?

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Ok, ok, maybe there actually is something to this Web2.0 business. A lot of the Web2.0 hype stems from the maturation of blogging, the software that helps people blog and RSS. All of these are good and bad things. Good in that there's more information available to more people today than ever before. Bad because there's more information available to more people today than ever before. Even before the term "blog" was coined, people were publishing personal journals, ramblings and general rants on the web. It was as true ten years ago as it is now, most of this content is... well... not very interesting to most people. Maybe it's poorly written blather about why someone hasn't posted poorly written blather recently. Or maybe it's well written content on a very specialized topic that is only relevant to a small number of people.

Good, bad, relevant, meaningless, it's all out there somewhere. The key to finding it is RSS. I used to subscribe to the Los Angeles Times. I'd poke through it every day and read a sentence or two and then tossed it in the recycling bin. The fact is, my interest in polotics, world affairs, sports, gardening, real estate and used cars is pretty limited, and that's all you're going to read about in most newspapers. My interests are elsewhere. Software programming, guns, literature, skiing, and so on. The best way to feed my desire for information is to turn to the web. But turning to the web for information is like visiting Niagra Falls for a sip of water. It's just too much. You need something like Google, Yahoo or now RSS to filter the information for you.

Will Web2.0 ever mean anything? Absolutely. I believe Web2.0 will eventually become something even grandma can understand. Presentation will be fast and flexible (AJAX, DHTML). Content will be tightly filtered with RSS. Folks can easily take advantage of all this stuff now with sites such as Bloglines, Feedster (update: now dead) and Feedburner. And all of this falls under the annoying label of Web2.0. This site is dedicated to Drupal. One of the things I wanted to provide was an aggregate feed of the most relevant Drupal news available. So using Drupal's aggregator module, I began creating the Drupal news page. You'd think that would be a simple task, but it isn't. With so many feeds, and so many feeds of feeds, and so much information available, pulling down just the right content is still very hard, and I still don't have the desired page I want. But the fact that it is even possible is something I'm very excited about. Here's a link to the story I was going to originally write about before my ADHD kicked in: The bottom line on blogging.

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