Saturday, December 8, 2007

Flexibility and adaptability?



I would like to share this article. Having met John Allsopp and listened to one of his speeches at a conference in Brisbane, I know that he is some-one worth listening to.
He claims to have invented the word Web 2.0.
His book on microformatting is in essence Web 2.0 design.
I include his article here as it reflects the process of the Web Standards Design and Internet software design, particularly Web 2.0.
Essentially technology is flexible and adaptable to people's needs. People and their learning / knowledge needs are the drivers for technology.
You can also see from his blogs and bios that he is in many CoPs and uses these for his practice.
Anderson's paper, and video, also reminds us of people power and the anit-authoritarian/anti-commercialisation social drivers for Web learning and CoPs.

Allsopp, J. (2000). A Dao of Web Design. A List Apart, 58.Retrieved 9/12/2007 from
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao/

Anderson, S. (2007). Its our web not theirs [Electronic Version]. COA News from http://search.creativecommons.org/#.

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