Thursday, May 9, 2002

An evolving architecture of participation: Tim O'Reilly said it really well in a talk at Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference: In a talk titled, Watching the Alpha Geeks, O'Reilly stated that disruptive innovation is again changing the computing landscape, as innovators and hackers are using the Web, wireless communication and built-in services to push aside the old paradigms. ... O'Reilly painted a picture where there is less focus on ownership and more on letting the user determine an evolving "architecture of participation." Persistent URI nodes become magnets for gathering together like-minded souls with appropriate workspaces and services. Contexts (symbiotically maintained through links, relationships, metadata, topic maps) enrich nodes with meaning. A great example are the referrer tails (refurry tails) being grown by some nodes: cf Jon Udell's Backlinks in Blogspace The culture of blogspace is evolving in near-realtime. Last week, a new mutation brought backlinks into a more prominent role. At Disenchanted, inbound links were automatically reflected outward. Each article grew a tail of backlinks that pointed to pages referring back to it. Suddenly a new kind of feedback loop was created. With a twist of the lens, conversations that had been diffuse and indirect came sharply into focus. Almost immediately the meme replicated. 10:27:55 AM

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