Web 2.0
The term " Web 2.0" is commony associated with web applications which facilitate interactive informating sharing, interopability, user-centered design and collaboration via the internet.
A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them.
The term is closely associated with Tim O'Reilly because of the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference back in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the internet (world wide web), it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but rather to cumulative changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the internet. Whether Web 2.0 is qualitatively different from prior web technologies has been challenged by the world wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee who called the term a "piece of jargon' precisely because he intended the internet to embody these values in the first place.
CNN iReport
While in search of a project or topic in which the social web (web 2.0) plays an important role, I was watching CNN (after the riots in Iran) when suddenly an item about this came up on CNN iReport, filmed and posted by a Iranian citizen who witnessed the happenings.
* Click here to launch the CNN iReport website
iReport is CNN's public journalism initiative that allows people from around the whole world to contribute pictures and video of breaking news stories from their own towns and neighborhood. It is similar to Wikinews in that it allows, and encourages, regular citizenns to submit stories, photos and videos from anywhere where there is "breaking" news. The program was launched on August 2, 2006. CNN's iReport gives everybody the chance to take part in this community as prosumer, instead of just being a consumer.
The term " Web 2.0" is commony associated with web applications which facilitate interactive informating sharing, interopability, user-centered design and collaboration via the internet.
A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with other users or to change website content, in contrast to non-interactive websites where users are limited to the passive viewing of information that is provided to them.
The term is closely associated with Tim O'Reilly because of the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference back in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the internet (world wide web), it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but rather to cumulative changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the internet. Whether Web 2.0 is qualitatively different from prior web technologies has been challenged by the world wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee who called the term a "piece of jargon' precisely because he intended the internet to embody these values in the first place.
CNN iReport
While in search of a project or topic in which the social web (web 2.0) plays an important role, I was watching CNN (after the riots in Iran) when suddenly an item about this came up on CNN iReport, filmed and posted by a Iranian citizen who witnessed the happenings.
* Click here to launch the CNN iReport website
iReport is CNN's public journalism initiative that allows people from around the whole world to contribute pictures and video of breaking news stories from their own towns and neighborhood. It is similar to Wikinews in that it allows, and encourages, regular citizenns to submit stories, photos and videos from anywhere where there is "breaking" news. The program was launched on August 2, 2006. CNN's iReport gives everybody the chance to take part in this community as prosumer, instead of just being a consumer.
Personally I think this is a very good initiative by giving everybody the chance to let "their" stories to be heard. Also to use of different iReport media platforms is a form of blended communication.
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