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BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis:



there are two kinds of content in the world: reference (fed by wiki so it can be updated) and feed (rss, fed by blog software).

The former is lasting but needs to be updated; the latter -- news, conversation -- is timely and flows. Both need to be found.

So the next layer you need is how to get to the content. That has been navigation and taxonomy. It may -- emphasis on may -- shift to search and folksonomy. We'll see.

: Oh, and, of course, it's not just content. It's conversation. Links are, obviously, the other means of finding the stuff we want: linksonomy.





baked Media

source: BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis:



Fully baked is a lecture or a book or a show. It says, 'I'm done. Eat what I tell you.'

Half-baked is a conversation. It says, 'Join in. Add some pepperoni before it's done, make it better, make it right for you. Enjoy.'

Old media necessitated fully baked thought and expression: You had to 'finish' it and get it 'right' before you used precious paper, production, and distribution and you couldn't go back and do it over again; you couldn't rethink.

New media allows half-baked notions to be distributed and shared and improved upon and rethought.

At the end of the day, I believe, the half-baked approach will end up with better thought, thanks to the conversation.

Of course, quality is still a factor. A stupid notion, whether fully or half-baked, is still a stupid notion and no amount of remixing or baking can fix it. Bad sauce makes bad pizzas.