You Are the Web?
TechCrunch pointed to the video embedded below yesterday, and I think it’s a nice piece showing off the difference between web “pages” and the web as a means of delivering information. The video makes this a distinction between HTML and XML, but that seems like a detail beyond the larger point to me — in the end people don’t care whether what they are seeing was created as a static HTML page or dynamically generated with lots of AJAXy goodness. But, the broader point about the evolving nature of the services we use to free information/content/data from form is finally becoming commonplace. I also think it’s great this was created by a professor of cultural anthropology — that in and of itself, perhaps, proves the point about the enormous power the Internet is having on our society.