Being connected, in a sense, describes the attachments, knowledge and relationships made outside of just your sphere of influence. There is a little boy in Australia, a hot dog stand in New York and a new feature film out in California being made. In Knoxville, Tennessee, there is no way I should know about any events outside my town. Yet, I am able to read up on the Australian boy’s current affairs of how he just won the Nobel Prize, or how during the filming of Zeesbee, the main actor stormed out of the set claiming that there weren’t enough green M&M’s in his dressing room bowl. From my desk in Knoxville, I can tap on, log in and read about anything and say hello to anyone in the world thanks to internet sites, blog postings, and social network accounts like Myspace.
I click on my Internet icon and everything is different than the last time I logged on. The internet is constantly being revamped and fixed up as a new way into the future. Tim O'Reilly talks about Web 2.O and the changes that have been taking place in the Internet, including the ever popular wikipedia and Napster sites created for the convenience and the mass appeal. Web 1.0 may have focused on the beginning sites of the Internet, but Web 2.0 “embraced the power of the web to harness collective intelligence.” In other words, seeing what sites work and growing them into a collaborative work on the Internet, like fixing up Google and Ebay as dominant functional sites for users to enjoy.
That’s the thing about the web. It’s everywhere. It’s not just when you open your laptop to check your mail. It’s the cell phone text telling you messages from the web. It’s the web link advertisements on your TV screen and the radio messages encouraging the readers to go on the company’s website.
I click on my Internet icon and everything is different than the last time I logged on. The internet is constantly being revamped and fixed up as a new way into the future. Tim O'Reilly talks about Web 2.O and the changes that have been taking place in the Internet, including the ever popular wikipedia and Napster sites created for the convenience and the mass appeal. Web 1.0 may have focused on the beginning sites of the Internet, but Web 2.0 “embraced the power of the web to harness collective intelligence.” In other words, seeing what sites work and growing them into a collaborative work on the Internet, like fixing up Google and Ebay as dominant functional sites for users to enjoy.
That’s the thing about the web. It’s everywhere. It’s not just when you open your laptop to check your mail. It’s the cell phone text telling you messages from the web. It’s the web link advertisements on your TV screen and the radio messages encouraging the readers to go on the company’s website.
Going on any site shows the user that any hypertext is linkable anywhere virtual and it’s not just texts. Internet users can view videos, upload pictures and sound bites virtually. The web is no longer linking information; it’s linking us to each other. We are controlling this machine , and the web now belongs to us.
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