I read the recent RWW Article which is a response to Jaron Lanier’s book “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto”, in which he makes the case for a more humanistic approach to Internet technology. Lanier rails against web 2.0, which he calls at the start of the book “a torrent of petty designs” and “freedom [...] more for machines than people.” This is my response to the RWW article.

Although Kwyno is looking to offer a command line to the web, it still is tied to the way information is presented at present. We are seeing shifts towards a different information age, and while the Web as a whole may take a while to catch up, we are in the transition to the next phase of the Web. Are you ready?

This article is a report on my recent experience with “going virtual” using the Cloud-based synchronisation tools SugarSync, DropBox and Live Mesh. Results are generally promising, although there were a few teething problems, and I have included pointers for you if you are experiencing similar issues.

The web is a content delivery medium; the more effectively we can deliver the content to our target audience, the more effective our website will be for our business. So, if the web is a content delivery medium, shouldn’t content be the most important element of our design and development process and not the design?