{"id":172,"date":"2007-11-07T10:09:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T18:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/11\/07\/web-20-buzzwords\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T17:39:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T01:39:21","slug":"web-20-buzzwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/11\/web-20-buzzwords\/","title":{"rendered":"Web 2.0: Buzzwords"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like any hyped tech\u00adno\u00adlogy, Web 2.0 has a lot of buzzwords. They include the tag<\/em> (as in tag cloud<\/em>), the folk\u00adsonomy<\/em>, the long tail<\/em> (more about that in a later post), and social soft\u00adware<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Social soft\u00adware<\/b> is there to sup\u00adport net\u00adwork\u00ading and social activ\u00adit\u00adies via the inter\u00adnet. Lots of people spend lots of time inter\u00adact\u00ading with friends online, wheth\u00ader they\u2019ve ever met them in per\u00adson or not. For people who are embed\u00added in that world, it\u2019s a nat\u00adur\u00adal way to inter\u00adact. For every\u00adone else, it can be slightly creepy to think that com\u00adplete strangers read everything you write and know a lot about you. Lots of real-life friend\u00adships have blos\u00adsomed from online activ\u00adit\u00adies, and more than a few prob\u00adlems have occurred as well. The social aspect, that is people inter\u00adact\u00ading with oth\u00ader people, is prob\u00adably the most import\u00adant aspect of Web 2.0 sites.<\/p>\n

The idea behind tag<\/b>s is to label things, so they\u2019re loosely related to cat\u00adegor\u00adies or (even more loosely) onto\u00adlo\u00adgies. Tags typ\u00adic\u00adally aren\u2019t applied by spe\u00adcial\u00adists; in keep\u00ading with the Web 2.0 philo\u00adsophy they are applied by the per\u00adson writ\u00ading the blog post, or upload\u00ading the photo, or stor\u00ading the book\u00admark. So you get near-duplic\u00ada\u00adtions, mis\u00adspellings, incor\u00adrect usages, double mean\u00adings etc., but at least you do have some sort of cat\u00adegor\u00adisa\u00adtion applied to these bits of con\u00adtent. And many people go to quite a lot of effort to see what sorts of tags oth\u00ader people use, and then pick the same ones where pos\u00adsible. This then ends up being a folk\u00adsonomy<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Web<\/a>This image shows a tag cloud<\/b>, which is a col\u00adlec\u00adtion of tags where the tags in big fonts are the more import\u00adant ones (usu\u00adally means they show up more often). Unlike say top\u00adic maps or RDF<\/span>, the spa\u00adtial dis\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adtion of the tags does\u00adn\u2019t usu\u00adally mean any\u00adthing, although in the\u00adory you could use it to show rela\u00adtion\u00adships between the tags. Since gen\u00ader\u00adally there is no form\u00adal rela\u00adtion\u00adship between them (oth\u00ader than that from nat\u00adur\u00adal lan\u00adguage) this would be tricky to auto\u00admate and most people just fiddle with the cloud to make it look nice. <\/p>\n

The oth\u00ader buzzwords on the slide are the import\u00adant ones from a couple of years ago, these days there would be a few more. There\u2019s also a ver\u00adsion of the slide<\/a> with the words linked to the rel\u00adev\u00adant Wiki\u00adpe\u00addia articles.<\/p>\n

One of a series on Web 2.0, taken from my talk at the CSW<\/span> Sum\u00admer School in July 2007. Here<\/a>\u2019s the series intro\u00adduc\u00adtion. Com\u00ading up next: social and col\u00adlab\u00ador\u00ada\u00adtion<\/a> aspects of Web 2.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like any hyped tech\u00adno\u00adlogy, Web 2.0 has a lot of buzzwords. They include the tag (as in tag cloud), the folk\u00adsonomy, the long tail (more about that in a later post), and social soft\u00adware. Social soft\u00adware is there to sup\u00adport net\u00adwork\u00ading and social activ\u00adit\u00adies via the inter\u00adnet. Lots of people spend lots of time inter\u00adact\u00ading \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cWeb 2.0: Buzzwords\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}