Evolutionary Revolution
In a manifesto for the new web of sorts Ryan King introduces microformats in a few short paragraphs. I wasn’t thinking of all the tag enabled services and the new uses of RSS (i.e. podcasting) as part of an evolutionary path of the web but it makes perfect sense now. Blogs and Flickr and all these new tools do not only bring us rants and cat pictures they also bring us classified content, or meaning if you will. I never really bought into the whole Web 2.0 idea anyway since i can’t really imagine the web in it’s current form and scale just fading away like the BBS systems and Gopher did back in their day. Old content does not die, it gets tagged! 