I see a lot of really off the wall ideas and conversations during a day to the point I often wonder if anything will make me shake my head it total and utter bewilderment anymore.
Then along comes Steve Rubel with a statement that stops me dead in my tracks and raise my head to the sky all the while muttering “Oh Lord….”. After all what more can you do when someone said that the future of the web is one without sites.
Sure on the surface that hits all the wet and warm spots of the social media mavens but when you look at the reasoning that both Rubel and Paul Gillin give for this so-called inevitable future of the web – well – let the head shaking commence.
This of course comes hot on the heels of a post by MG Siegler at TechCrunch about the Associated Press directing all their traffic to their Facebook page.
Steve thinks this is a news game changer
The AP is now changing the game for news by not only going where attention spirals are taking us but by also using their content to curate a conversation on Facebook and – above all – build relationships.
Paul Gillin says this about the site-less web
These are the first ripples in a wave of new technology that will make the Internet effectively site-less. By that I mean that the metaphor of the Web as we’ve known it for the last 15 years is breaking down. The Internet is increasingly not about sites but about content and people
So let me get this straight. The future of the web, and all its incredible richness, is going to be places like Facebook, Twitter, Buzz and Foursquare.
If this is what the future of the web is going to be like then we will lose more than we gain.Contrary to what Steve Rubel thinks the AP isn’t a visionary in the least. They have just found a new way to concentrate and control their product.
There’s nothing visionary about that.
Will all the web services we use today be around in 10, 20, or 50 years from now?
In tonight’s show Sean and I take a bit of a look back on the world of blogging and how, regardless of what some might think, that the growth of blogging may not be the good thing some would like to believe, nor has it grown in the way others would like it to have.
I remember a time, and it wasn’t that long ago either, when people would snicker under their breath if you said your had self-published a book and then had the nerve to call yourself an author.
