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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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4Cast #192: Is the Web Dead?</span><br>
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25th, 2010</span></p>
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style="font-size: 16px; font-family: arial;
line-height: 110%;">Last
week, Wired magazine ran a pair of articles by
Chris Anderson (who
wrote <em>The Long Tail</em>) and well-known
journalist Michael Wolff
under the heading "The Web Is Dead: Long Live
the Internet."
Predictably, this provoked a lot of response
from technology
journalists. Why does it matter to libraries?
Well, it might be
something to consider as you decided whether to
devote precious
resources to a "killer" library website as
opposed to a "killer"
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">Dead.
<a
href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1">Blame
us</a>.
(Wired/Chris Anderson) "Over the past few years,
one of the most
important shifts in the digital world has been
the move from the
wide-open Web to semiclosed platforms that use
the Internet for
transport but not the browser for display. It's
driven primarily by the
rise of the iPhone model of mobile computing,
and it's a world Google
can't crawl, one where HTML doesn't rule."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white_paper_c11-481360_ns827_Networking_Solutions_White_Paper.html">Data</a>.
(Cisco Visual Networking Index) This is the
data-laden report that
supplied much of the information used by Wired
magazine. The executive
summary is full of interesting projections.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">Dead?
<a
href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/the-growth-of-the-dying-web/">Doesn't
look
that way</a>. (New York Times/Nick Bilton)
"Although Wired might
be right in its assessment that apps are on the
rise, with billions
downloaded from Apple alone, many areas of the
Web continue to grow
dramatically too."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">Not
dead, <a
href="http://gigaom.com/2010/08/17/the-web-isnt-dead-its-just-continuing-to-evolve/">just
evolving</a>. (GigaOM/Mathew Ingram) "We now
have applications for
maps, applications for photos, applications for
reading books, and apps
for video and location-based 'check ins' and
dozens of other things.
That doesn't mean the web is dead; it means that
the web, and the way
we use it, is evolving. Instead of wandering
around on the web looking
for interesting websites by using services such
as Yahoo or AOL, we're
using task-specific devices in a sense."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Sobering
Fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">From
the Cisco Visual Networking Index: "It would take
over two years to
watch the amount of video that will cross global
IP networks every
second in 2014." </div>
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