Archive for October, 2005

Why should Flickr pay you to use their service?

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

There seem to be a few people suggesting that Flickr (and presumably other sites along the same lines) should pay people who ‘add content’ to their site, which then helps them make money via the ads displayed….
I think that is WHOLLY missguided and forgetting what going on.

“Web 2.0″, why?

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

I hope I’m not the only one, but I really don’t get this whole “Web 2.0″ thing and why everyones going crazy over it.
Wow, so someone realised that having tools is one thing, but having tools that work easily, and work well is another thing, and suddenly having a more efficient tool means the web [...]

The nature of blogs

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

No one seems quite able to closely define what a blog is. They know when they see one, but I’ve not seen a good definition yet.
Some people say blogs have to have comments and RSS for example, but you can have that with normal articles. Several people have moaned about the various ‘top [...]