DaveNet : First essay of the year
Recently a reporter asked me if all this michegas about weblogs isn’t just the Web, and I said of course it is. The first website, done by Tim Berners-Lee was a weblog in every sense of the word. All we’re doing is lowering the barrier, making it easier to get in. That’s a big deal of course, but in another sense, it’s the same thing again and again, every year for the last decade, and each time through the loop it’s bigger, because it gets easier.
This resonates with me because a large part of my working life has been engaged in simplifying the work of publishing.
From cold type to photo-offset to desktop publishing to the internet, it’s been all about using technology to remove the distance between inspiration and publication.
I may have to add Dave to my reading list.