Watching the Web Article

One of the most interesting things to me in the Economist article on Tim Berners-Lee and the development of the Web was the reminder - and this is something I've been reminding myself and others about too - that the original version of the Web was that it was a two way medium, a way for scientists at universities around the world to exchange information. Then business discovered the Web and, as the article points, Web publishing tools failed to keep up with Web browsers in ease of use. So this "new" Web 2.0 is not so new after all. Web publisihing tools have evolved in amazing directions - some of which we're exploring in our 23 Things.