Comments on: Bottom 5% of the Web 2.0 http://grandtextauto.org/2006/06/27/bottom-5-of-the-web-20/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Grand Text Auto » 10 Worst 10 Worst Lists of All Time http://grandtextauto.org/2006/06/27/bottom-5-of-the-web-20/comment-page-1/#comment-180371 Grand Text Auto » 10 Worst 10 Worst Lists of All Time Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:52:20 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1226#comment-180371 [...] the worst of all, the worst of all time. With that in mind, and in the spirit of looking into the bottom 5% of user-created content, Grand Text Auto presents you with this list of the 10 worst lists of 10 [...] [...] the worst of all, the worst of all time. With that in mind, and in the spirit of looking into the bottom 5% of user-created content, Grand Text Auto presents you with this list of the 10 worst lists of 10 [...]

]]> By: nick http://grandtextauto.org/2006/06/27/bottom-5-of-the-web-20/comment-page-1/#comment-107552 nick Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:36:40 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1226#comment-107552 Ah yes, I saw that via Jill's blog a few days ago. I'll have to get to work on finding the Web 1.0 animated gif that corresponds to that. Ah yes, I saw that via Jill’s blog a few days ago. I’ll have to get to work on finding the Web 1.0 animated gif that corresponds to that.

]]> By: michael http://grandtextauto.org/2006/06/27/bottom-5-of-the-web-20/comment-page-1/#comment-107551 michael Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:20:58 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1226#comment-107551 Came across this video, <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE" rel="nofollow">Web 2.0 - The Machine is Us/ing Us</a></i>. Currently making the rounds in the blogosphere. Great animated text treatment of the wonders (yuck yuck) of the 2.0 vision. Beautiful to watch actually. Just shows what you can stumble across when looking for videos of cats flushing toilets (which also seem to be sweeping the electronic landscape - my wife and I have received two copies of a cat flushing a toilet video in the last few days). Came across this video, Web 2.0 – The Machine is Us/ing Us. Currently making the rounds in the blogosphere. Great animated text treatment of the wonders (yuck yuck) of the 2.0 vision. Beautiful to watch actually. Just shows what you can stumble across when looking for videos of cats flushing toilets (which also seem to be sweeping the electronic landscape – my wife and I have received two copies of a cat flushing a toilet video in the last few days).

]]> By: nick http://grandtextauto.org/2006/06/27/bottom-5-of-the-web-20/comment-page-1/#comment-87686 nick Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:14:27 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1226#comment-87686 While I won't try to add explanatory links for all of my jokes, I guess I should mention, now that these things are 10 years old, that the title of my post here refers <a href="http://tonkinresolutions.com/pointless/home.html" rel="nofollow">to this,</a> which refers <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19971017143208/http://www.pointcom.com/" rel="nofollow">to this.</a> While I won’t try to add explanatory links for all of my jokes, I guess I should mention, now that these things are 10 years old, that the title of my post here refers to this, which refers to this.

]]> By: B Rickman http://grandtextauto.org/2006/06/27/bottom-5-of-the-web-20/comment-page-1/#comment-86778 B Rickman Wed, 28 Jun 2006 18:54:16 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1226#comment-86778 Mark seems to have fallen for the notion that technological advance == progress. Mark seems to have fallen for the notion that technological advance == progress.

]]> By: mark http://grandtextauto.org/2006/06/27/bottom-5-of-the-web-20/comment-page-1/#comment-86740 mark Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:36:15 +0000 http://grandtextauto.org/?p=1226#comment-86740 I think some of the changes are overblown. "Blogging", for example, has been around for about as long as the web has been around; it's only the word "blog" that is relatively new. I remember reading Slashdot in 1996, and modern blogs have basically copied its format wholesale: reverse-chronological-order entries on a front page, extended bodies after you click, and a comments section. Slashdot even has threaded discussions, something most blog software still hasn't implemented. Sure, more people have blogs now than did in 1996, but that's partly simply due to more people being on the internet in the first place. I do think collaborative editing (e.g. Wikipedia) is one major innovation in how the internet is used. AJAX is quite possibly the worst part of "Web 2.0", though. In principle, it's a good idea: the network is the computer and all that; deploy applications using the web browser as the universal GUI. AJAX is really pretty horrible as far as an implementation, though. From the programmer's perspective, writing an entire application in JavaScript is just about the worst things possible, and from the user's perspective, you now need a 3 GHz machine and a gig of RAM just to run a simple application comparable to those that ran quickly 10 years ago. Hell I can't even read dailykos.com anymore because their "improved" Javascript-heavy format lags my (not really that old) computer unbearably---and reading and posting comments to a text-based website is about the bare minimum you can imagine an application consisting of. I think some of the changes are overblown. “Blogging”, for example, has been around for about as long as the web has been around; it’s only the word “blog” that is relatively new. I remember reading Slashdot in 1996, and modern blogs have basically copied its format wholesale: reverse-chronological-order entries on a front page, extended bodies after you click, and a comments section. Slashdot even has threaded discussions, something most blog software still hasn’t implemented. Sure, more people have blogs now than did in 1996, but that’s partly simply due to more people being on the internet in the first place.

I do think collaborative editing (e.g. Wikipedia) is one major innovation in how the internet is used.

AJAX is quite possibly the worst part of “Web 2.0″, though. In principle, it’s a good idea: the network is the computer and all that; deploy applications using the web browser as the universal GUI. AJAX is really pretty horrible as far as an implementation, though. From the programmer’s perspective, writing an entire application in JavaScript is just about the worst things possible, and from the user’s perspective, you now need a 3 GHz machine and a gig of RAM just to run a simple application comparable to those that ran quickly 10 years ago. Hell I can’t even read dailykos.com anymore because their “improved” Javascript-heavy format lags my (not really that old) computer unbearably—and reading and posting comments to a text-based website is about the bare minimum you can imagine an application consisting of.

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