{"id":69,"date":"2005-12-07T13:40:25","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T20:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corneliadavis.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2005-12-07T13:40:25","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T20:40:25","slug":"participatory-content-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/07\/participatory-content-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Participatory Content Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, there is a lot of contention around the use of a term like &#8220;Web 2.0&#8221; and yeah, to a great degree, I agree, it&#8217;s a bit &#8220;markety&#8221;; then again, I work for a company that has to make money (or my job and lots of others go away) and I understand the need for marketing.  In short, arguing whether this is the right term or not, admirable or sleazy, is something I&#8217;m just not all that interested in.What I am interested in is the characterizations in the first two &#8220;phases&#8221; of the web and I thought Tim did that nicely in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/a\/oreilly\/tim\/news\/2005\/09\/30\/what-is-web-20.html\">What is Web 2.0?<\/a>.  (Sure these &#8220;phases&#8221; have vague boundaries and they overlap, but as a simple frame of reference in which to cast these ideas it&#8217;s fine.)  I won&#8217;t recap all of the attributes Tim listed in each of these phases, only draw out my favorite one in the latter &#8211; that of <b>user participation<\/b>.  I loved his example of Amazon beating out Barnes &#038; Nobel (at least in part) because the information they provide to the buyer includes content provided by their very users.  That is, they <b>don&#8217;t try to control all of the content that is presented<\/b>.  I don&#8217;t think that this point can be over emphasized and it is not just a technology decision.  We don&#8217;t simply add a discussion thread (somewhere) and achieve user participation.  This has to be a philosophy, a paradigm that we follow, even in the technology we create.  I can tell you that it is one that has and will continue influencing what I do in my day job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, there is a lot of contention around the use of a term like &#8220;Web 2.0&#8221; and yeah, to a great degree, I agree, it&#8217;s a bit &#8220;markety&#8221;; then again, I work for a company that has to make money (or my job and lots of others go away) and I understand the need for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web20"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corneliadavis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}