Microblogging
Microblogging will be the critical change in the way we write in Web 3.0. Imagine a world where your mobile phone, your email, and you television could all produce feedback that could easily be pushed to any or all blogging platforms. If you take a picture from your smart-phone, it would be automatically tagged, bagged and forwarded to your “lifestream”. If you rated a television show that you were watching, your review would be forwarded into the stream.
Of course, the allure of any individual blog would be much more limited. As the popularity of micro-blogging explodes, more and more basically “unreadable” blog will start to populate the blogosphere. It’s not hard to imagine a world where the vast majority of your posts amount to, “stuck in traffic, ugh…”
Fortunately, microblogging also opens up the world to new opportunities. Live blogging, a technique usually reserved for important events, would become common. If you can’t actually be at a conference, pictures, video and commentary could be pushed to you in real time. The entire world would become an Op-Ed piece.
Defined searching methods would also transform blog writers into brands themselves. Since everything would be happening in near real-time, it’s the writer who can get to the event and convey it most convincingly that will draw the crowds. Everyone has the same information, the question will be who makes you want to read it.
Related Companies: Jiaku, Tumblr, Twitter
RSS Integration
Web 3.0 will be the age of the RSS. Web services will enable you to blog from anywhere, and RSS will enable you to combine all of these divergent feeds into one coherent picture. Blogs themselves will be reduced to a stream of consciousness interspersed with longer, traditional news pieces. Where one we could only hope to get one or two posts written a day, it won’t be strange to have two dozen posts in one afternoon on a Web 3.0 enabled blog.
If you want to take a peek into the future, look at web services like Twitter or Facebook status.These streams only ask for one line worth of information describing exactly what you are doing at the moment. As a result, they provide extremely concise, constantly updated information. Unfortunately, neither one of these services currently provide RSS, but it is unlikely that the Twitter’s of Web 3.0 will make the same choice.
Think of your blog as a combination off all the pseudo-blogging tools that you will be using in a few years. Your Flickr feed and your Jaiku account, your Upcoming calendar and the latest Google maps mashup. Your blog will, in short, be a close approximation to who you are.
Related Companies: iGoogle, Netvibes
Choosing Not To Blog
As blogging becomes more invasive, a common societal backlash will be those who simply refuse to do it. Even if they do blog, it will be within walled gardens so that they can tightly control who has access to this “lifestream”. Generally, people are more than willing to give information out online, as long as they are given the option to make that information private. In Web 3.0 access control and role based privacy features will be the speaking points of the day.
Mobile Technology
Some new places that you will be able to push information to your blog from.
Mobile Phones
Video Game Consoles
Smart Watches
If it produces data, it is likely there will be a method to upload that data and a universal format (like RSS) to push that data into whichever receptacle you deem appropriate.
Related Projects: Lifebits
Microblogging will be the critical change in the way we write in Web 3.0. Imagine a world where your mobile phone, your email, and you television could all produce feedback that could easily be pushed to any or all blogging platforms. If you take a picture from your smart-phone, it would be automatically tagged, bagged and forwarded to your “lifestream”. If you rated a television show that you were watching, your review would be forwarded into the stream.
Of course, the allure of any individual blog would be much more limited. As the popularity of micro-blogging explodes, more and more basically “unreadable” blog will start to populate the blogosphere. It’s not hard to imagine a world where the vast majority of your posts amount to, “stuck in traffic, ugh…”
Fortunately, microblogging also opens up the world to new opportunities. Live blogging, a technique usually reserved for important events, would become common. If you can’t actually be at a conference, pictures, video and commentary could be pushed to you in real time. The entire world would become an Op-Ed piece.
Defined searching methods would also transform blog writers into brands themselves. Since everything would be happening in near real-time, it’s the writer who can get to the event and convey it most convincingly that will draw the crowds. Everyone has the same information, the question will be who makes you want to read it.
Related Companies: Jiaku, Tumblr, Twitter
RSS Integration
Web 3.0 will be the age of the RSS. Web services will enable you to blog from anywhere, and RSS will enable you to combine all of these divergent feeds into one coherent picture. Blogs themselves will be reduced to a stream of consciousness interspersed with longer, traditional news pieces. Where one we could only hope to get one or two posts written a day, it won’t be strange to have two dozen posts in one afternoon on a Web 3.0 enabled blog.
If you want to take a peek into the future, look at web services like Twitter or Facebook status.These streams only ask for one line worth of information describing exactly what you are doing at the moment. As a result, they provide extremely concise, constantly updated information. Unfortunately, neither one of these services currently provide RSS, but it is unlikely that the Twitter’s of Web 3.0 will make the same choice.
Think of your blog as a combination off all the pseudo-blogging tools that you will be using in a few years. Your Flickr feed and your Jaiku account, your Upcoming calendar and the latest Google maps mashup. Your blog will, in short, be a close approximation to who you are.
Related Companies: iGoogle, Netvibes
Choosing Not To Blog
As blogging becomes more invasive, a common societal backlash will be those who simply refuse to do it. Even if they do blog, it will be within walled gardens so that they can tightly control who has access to this “lifestream”. Generally, people are more than willing to give information out online, as long as they are given the option to make that information private. In Web 3.0 access control and role based privacy features will be the speaking points of the day.
Mobile Technology
Some new places that you will be able to push information to your blog from.
Mobile Phones
Video Game Consoles
Smart Watches
If it produces data, it is likely there will be a method to upload that data and a universal format (like RSS) to push that data into whichever receptacle you deem appropriate.
Related Projects: Lifebits
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