A survey that doesn’t suck…
Doc Searls (hater of surveys), in response to an SAP survey:
Amen, Doc!
The more useful distinction is between the Live Web and the Static Web. The Live Web today is branching off of the Static Web. Much of what we call ’social’ happens there, though I dislike the ‘media’ term because it’s old and freighted with concepts inherited from TV, radio and all that.
He goes on…
The whole blogosphere is chronological. What’s latest is on top, but what’s older does not merely scroll off the page into oblivion. It goes into a time-based archive. What’s more, Technorati and Google Blog Search both update their search engines within minutes or even seconds of when an RSS feed is posted. That’s live.
I don’t know how I feel about this Live vs. Static characterization. I’d prefer the term Living Web (vs. Dead Web?) — it’s defining characteristics have less to do with time marching on and more to do with the humans doing the marching — but what the hell. By any name, the writing’s on the wall for business; politicians; academia. Each and every one of us that has something to say; something to add to the conversation.
The walls of business will come down. That’s the main effect of the Net itself. Companies are people and are learning to adapt to a world where everybody is connected, everybody contributes, and everybody is zero distance (or close enough) from everybody else. This is the ‘flat world’ Tom Friedman wrote ‘The World is Flat’ about, and he’s right. Business on the whole has still not fully noticed this, however.
[via: gapingvoid]