Tomorrow I had originally planned to “attend” Clay Johnson’s webcast The Information Diet: How to Control What You Consume from O’Reilly Media. However, in response to the SOPA protests across the net, Clay Johnson and O’Reilly have cancelled the event and instead are offering an all day, open webcast called Learn to Be a Better Activist During the SOPA Protest. While the event will be focusing on dealing with Congress, I’m sure there will be some useful activist/advocacy tips that can be applied no matter where you live.
Hope to see you there.
John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly, founders of the Web 2.0 Conference, have coined a new term (and released a white paper) on what they believe is the next evolution of the internet – Web Squared (Web²).
The Web is no longer a collection of static pages of HTML that describe something in the world. Increasingly, the Web is the world – everything and everyone in the world casts an “information shadow,” an aura of data which, when captured and processed intelligently, offers extraordinary opportunity and mind bending implications. Web Squared is our way of exploring this phenomenon and giving it a name.
According to Battelle and O’Reilly, Web 2.0 + World = Web².
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