Friday, August 29, 2008

Web 3.0

"Where Web 1.0 was a "read-only" web, with content being produced by and large by the organizations backing any given site, and Web 2.0 was an extension into the "read-write" web that engaged users in an active role, Web 3.0 could extend this one step further by allowing people to modify the site or resource itself. In other words, Wikipedia is an example of a Web 3.0 technology." - from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_3.0

What a load of nonsense. Now look, I'm no expert in this stuff, which is why I was reading the Wikipedia article in the first place, so maybe the rest of the article is half-decent. But those sentences are just pure crap. Web 1.0 was "read-only", "with content being produced by and large by the organizations backing any given site"? When in the world was that true? From Wikipedia's own article on Web 1.0, "Personal web pages were common in Web 1.0, consisting of mainly static pages hosted on free hosting services such as Geocities..."

Anyway, it'd be nice if there were a Wikipedia out there that didn't put up with this kind of crap.

{{Sofixit}}? Here's the problem with that: I have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to the topic of "Web 3.0". That's why I was reading the article in the first place. About the only thing I could do is remove the sentences that are obviously crap. But doing so would screw up the structure of the article, and most likely would be reverted as a result. Maybe there needs to be a {{crap}} tag. I guess I could sprinkle {{dubious}} all over that paragraph. I'll give it a shot.

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