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Author: cgerrish

Unemployed philosopher

Web 4.0

Published November 13, 2006 by cgerrish

It’s easy to add one to a number. But do you really get a paradigm shift by adding a number to Web 2.0? The more you know about the history of the Web and interactive computing, the more meaningless names like “Web 2.0” or “Web 3.0” or “Web 4.0” are. Certainly a guy like John Markoff should know better. He wrote a book about Doug Engelbart — he must know that none of this is new. And certainly the idea of a semantic Web isn’t new.

We’ve finally reached the point where the phrase “Web 2.0” does more damage than good. It’s no longer meaningful, if it ever was. The next time you hear someone say “Web 2.0” cover your ears and start shreiking “loo loo loo loo loo loo.”

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Published November 9, 2006 by cgerrish

More on Microformats

So categories can be expressed as “tags.” Or so I’m lead to believe.

And this is a table This is a column
another row another cell

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Headlines, Catagories, Microformats

Published November 9, 2006 by cgerrish

So the things I’d look for immediately from a Google Docs to blog publishing method is the ability to use microformats to indicate a Title or Headline, assign the post to a category and any other microformats I can think of and the my blog supports.
Perhaps there’s a way to do this, but I haven’t figured it out yet. The things you do get are spell checking, and all the nice word processing features that help in writing and editing a piece of text.

And there are things like simple blockquoting that could make formatting much easier.

Another nice feature is the ability to edit the HTML. A preliminary look at the HTML shows a fairly reasonable approach to mark up. The blockquotes are divs and inline styles. But the paragraphs aren’t “p” tags, they’re “br” tags.

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Published November 9, 2006 by cgerrish

Publishing from Google Docs

Using Google docs you can write and edit posts. And then you can publish them to your WordPress blog. A whole variety of blogging platforms are supported. I suppose it’s possible that links are supported as well. A lot of testing and exploration will be required to really make use of this.

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