What Makes Web 2.0 Tick?

Information scientist Ellyssa Kroski has written a thoughtful and informative essay about the philosophy behind Web 2.0, or “Phase Two” of the web, as she calls it. She examines the phenomena of collective intelligence, the way data is distributed, and the movement of software from the desktop to the browser. Her big question: The Web […]

Information scientist Ellyssa Kroski has written a thoughtful and informative essay about the philosophy behind Web 2.0, or "Phase Two" of the web, as she calls it.

She examines the phenomena of collective intelligence, the way data is distributed, and the movement of software from the desktop to the browser. Her big question:

The Web has entered a “golden” age of participation, the era of the amateur. A time of radical decentralization ... Whether that is good or bad, moral or immoral is subjective, and what we will end up calling it is still under debate.

[link via Dion, who also has some insights of his own to share]