CPL 2.0

Q: Which aspect of Web 2.0 are you the most intrigued (or scared) by?



A: Hmmm ...



The internet is an increbile tool, one that allows for the aquisition, and dissemination of enormous quantities of information [i.e. facts (for conventions sake we'll assume they exist), opinions, ideas, etc.], through a variety of mediums [text, photo, video, mp3, etc.]. It is an informational forum unlike any other in history, offering both vastness and immediacy; with the press of a button (mostly proverbial), one can find 101 (again proverbial) perspectives on ... Vancouver : simultaneous best, and worst host of the Olympic Games ... ever..., or to use a personally relevant example: the overarching brilliance 'or' disgusting pretension of my band's latest record. When the War of the Succession was occurring in the 1740's, 'the Newcastle Journal' unanimously sided with the British army's decision to ally itself with Austria, regaling the reader with promises of a swift and justified murder of Spanish army-men (this quote is fabricated, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog). The 'world' - a condition of the facts as presented by the 'Newcastle Journal', and interpreted by the good people of Newcastle via a 'language' (in the broader sense) for the most part informed by the 'Newcastle Journal' - just the Newcastle Journal feeding back into itself over, and over, and over, and over, creating the world for the good folks of Newcastle (I'm using both hyperbole, and reduction here; strategically, to make a point, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog). Imagine if we only had the Newcastle Journal telling us about the 2010 Vancouver Olympic games ... dear God, it would be the worst Olympics ever, unequivocally; uncontested - those Brits. Now I'm not saying that every event is an essence-less, nebulous blob, possessing no identity other than that imputed on it from within the interpretive operations of 'human consciousnesses' (which would also be nebulous and interpretive, unless it could do the old 'eye seeing itself trick')[I believe this, but I won't say it here, blog, blog, blog, blog, blog]. Anyway, to conclude with the obvious point: the more information available i.e.- the more news stories, tv programs, letters, facebook updates, tweets, stories from friends, conversations .... ******BLOGS *******, one can access ... the more oppurtunity there is to develop a thoughtfully constructed (and hopefully benevolent; I feel they generally go hand in hand) interpretation of ...(I'm going to use a really loaded term here, and only provisionally) ..........'REALITY!!!!' ....... In short, blogs, social networking, general internetting etc. are all piece's in the collective information pie, and that sweet info pie nourishes the soul. The more informed we are the better, it seems to increase not only one's oppurtunities, but also ones liberties. Yep CPL 2.0.