Web 2.0
Blogging in the Enterprise
Ellen Simonetti received an unexpected call from her employer, Delta, telling her that her manager needed to “talk” to her. Ellen found out that her employer was firing her for posing “inappropriate” pictures on her blog. Despite her clean performance record, she was given no warning and terminated. For something she thought was harmless it […]
jQuery: JavaScript That Doesn’t Suck
I hate JavaScript. I mean I really hate JavaScript. Dealing with different implementations of the DOM between browsers is a menace I couldn’t duplicate if I tried. I’ve tried JS libraries from Mootools, script.aculo.us, and so on until recently. I knew jQuery existed, but I didn’t realize how powerful the language was until recently. When […]
Is WordPress “Web 2.0?”
Matt Mullenweg, the WordPress lead, has the following to say on this question. Someday I think there will be a realization that the real story is more exciting than the cookie-cutter founder myth the media tries frame everything in. It’s not just one or two guys hacking on something alone, it’s dozens of people from […]
The Evolution of the Web
I don’t post videos often, but this video is worth mentioning. It’s done by a cultural anthropologist on the evolution of the web to a more collaborative, interactive, “Web 2.0″ environment.