Tim Berners-Lee explains that he wrote a browser-editor (and a client/server), rather than a single web browser (rather a single client), in 1990, and was called WorldWideWeb. "Much later it was renamed in order to save confusion between the program and the abstract information space, which is now spelled World Wide Web." Actually, the transition to the second generation web - or 'semantic web' -, specifically points out to a transformation from a one-way, broadcast medium, to a two-way, writeable web.

An open source software project, hosted by W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium, directed by Berners-Lee), is *Amaya , a browser/authoring tool that allows to publish documents on the Web. It is used to demonstrate and test many of the new developments in Web protocols and data formats. Amaya includes a collaborative annotation application -- annotations are external comments, notes, remarks that can be attached to any Web document or a selected part of the document. --

writeable web tools

> 'The Writeable Web.' Listing by O'Reilly Network

Weblogs are a new media life-form that is native of our post-web world.

As was defined by a blog pioneer, Jorn Barger, "a weblog (sometimes called a blog or a newspage or a filter) is a webpage where a weblogger (sometimes called a blogger, or a pre-surfer) 'logs' all the other webpages she finds interesting." So in weblogs, experts in every conceivable subject, that express or no opinion, compile news and links on some specific subject.

"These daily diaries of links and reflections on links are the new medium of communication for the technical elite. Replacing the high-cost, high-octane, venture-funded Web site with one that is intensely personal and built around the connectivity between people and ideas, they are creating a new set of synapses for the global brain. It's no accident that weblogs are increasingly turning up as the top hits on search engines, since they trade in the same currency as the best search engines --human intelligence, as reflected in who's already paying attention to what. Weblogs aren't just the next generation of personal home pages, representing a return to text over design and, lightweight content management systems. They are also a platform for experimentation with the way the Web works: collective bookmarking, virtual communities, tools for syndication, referral, and Web services..." >from 'Inventing the Future' by Tim O'Reilly. April 9, 2002

weblog definition and history

> 'The History of Weblogs'
by Dave Winer. October 12, 2001

> 'Weblogs: a history and perspective'
by Rebecca Blood. september 7, 2000
[upcoming book 'the weblog handbook', june 2002]

> Weblog resources FAQ
by Jorn Barger. September 1999

weblog tools and review

> 'The complete guide to weblogs'

> 'The Weblog Tool Roundup'
by Joshua Allen. May 2, 2002

something about weblog evolution

> 'What is a Google Box?'
by Dave Winer. April 11, 2002

> Weblog BookWatch

> Blogdex: wired vox populi.
Since july 18, 2001. analyzer of recent trends in weblogs, created by Cameron Marlow.
> blogdex. social network explorer [prototype]

> 'The Evolution of RSS'
by Andrew King. Web Reference, May 14, 2001

> 'Links back to you' - automated backlinks-
by Disenchanted, since May 2001

> picture of weblogs
by Casey Marshall, since 2001

"A number of significant developments separate us from pioneering sites: The blogging population itself has grown dramatically, and has begun organizing itself into a genuine community rather than a series of isolated sites; software tools have been built specifically to let noncoders create and maintain blogs; and the universe of potential pages to link to has expanded by several orders of magnitude. There's simply more Web to log, and consequently more need for experienced guides... The true revolution promised by the rise of bloggerdom is not about journalism. It's about information management. The bloggers have the potential to do something far more original than offer up packaged opinions on the news of the day; they can actually help organize the Web in ways tailored to your minute-by-minute needs... they're not challengers to the throne of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. They're challengers to the throne of Google... transform the Web from a disorganized mess into a more coherent universe of useful data... Beyond the unspoken collective effect on Google's results, the blog world has already been mined for global patterns in a number of interesting experiments... the bloggers are going to have to shed their dependence on the traditional journalistic models: Instead of going to today's blog the way you pick up today's paper, the bloggers should follow us around, providing context and commentary, supplementing our libraries and our memory." >from 'Use the blog, Luke' by Steven Johnson (author of 'Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software'). Salon. May 10, 2002

more on journalistic fork of weblogs

> 'The Blogging Revolution. Weblogs Are To Words What Napster Was To Music'
by Andrew Sullivan. Wired, May 2002

> Proposal: The Weblog Foundation
by Jeff Jarvis, may 2002

> 'Business pros flock to Weblogs. Popular online diaries create new form of journalism'
by Martin Wolk. MSNBC, April 15, 2002

more on information management fork of weblogs

> 'The Tipping Blog. How Weblogs Can Turn an Idea into an Epidemic'.
By John Hiler. Microcontent News, March 12, 2002

> 'How Weblogs Influence A Billion Google Searches A Week'
By John Hiler. Microcontent News, February 26, 2002
> What is a k-log?'
(k-log means knowledge-log) by Giles Turnbull. WriteTheWeb, March 5, 2002

more on marketing fork of weblogs

> 'Flash: Blogging Goes Corporate'
by Farhad Manjoo. Wired, May 9, 2002

> 'The coming of the blogs'
by Baron Lowery. News.com, April 19, 2002

>the writeable web

Tim Berners-Lee
<http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/>

Amaya , a browser/authoring tool
<http://www.w3.org/Amaya/>

'The Writeable Web'
Listing by O'Reilly Network
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/t/84>

>weblogs

'Inventing the Future'
by Tim O'Reilly. April 9, 2002
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/04/09/future.html>

weblog definition and history

'The History of Weblogs'
by Dave Winer. October 12, 2001
<http://newhome.weblogs.com/historyOfWeblogs>

'Weblogs: a history and perspective'
by Rebecca Blood. september 7, 2000
[upcoming book 'the weblog handbook', june 2002]
<http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html>

> Weblog resources FAQ
by Jorn Barger. September 1999
<http://www.robotwisdom.com/weblogs/index.html>

weblog tools and review

'The complete guide to weblogs'
<http://www.lights.com/weblogs/tools.html>

'The Weblog Tool Roundup'
by Joshua Allen. May 2, 2002
<http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/02/18/index3a.html>

something about weblog evolution

'What is a Google Box?'
by Dave Winer. April 11, 2002
<http://radio.userland.com/googleBox>

Weblog BookWatch
<http://www.onfocus.com/bookwatch/>

Blogdex: wired vox populi.
Since july 18, 2001. analyzer of recent trends in weblogs, created by Cameron Marlow.
<http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/>

blogdex. social network explorer [prototype]
<http://blogdex.media.mit.edu/socnet/index.asp?ego=straddle3.net/context>

'The Evolution of RSS'
by Andrew King. Web Reference, May 14, 2001
<http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languages/xml/rss/1/>

'Links back to you' - automated backlinks-
by Disenchanted, since May 2001
<http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/linkback.html>

picture of weblogs,
by Casey Marshall, since 2001
<http://www.metastatic.org/wlm/>

>a new flow of information

'Use the blog, Luke'
by Steven Johnson. Salon. May 10, 2002
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/10/blogbrain/>

journalistic fork of weblogs

The Blogging Revolution. Weblogs Are To Words What Napster Was To Music'
by Andrew Sullivan. Wired, May 2002
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.05/mustread.html?pg=2>

Proposal: The Weblog Foundation
by Jeff Jarvis, may 2002
<http://www.buzzmachine.com/foundation/>

'Business pros flock to Weblogs. Popular online diaries create new form of journalism'
by Martin Wolk. MSNBC, April 15, 2002
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/737986.asp?cp1=1>

information management fork of weblogs

'The Tipping Blog. How Weblogs Can Turn an Idea into an Epidemic'.
By John Hiler. Microcontent News, March 12, 2002
<http://www.corante.com/microcontent/articles/tippingblog.shtml>

'How Weblogs Influence A Billion Google Searches A Week'
By John Hiler. Microcontent News, February 26, 2002
<http://www.corante.com/microcontent/articles/googleblog.shtml>

What is a k-log?'
by Giles Turnbull. WriteTheWeb, March 5, 2002
<http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=123>

marketing fork of weblogs

'Flash: Blogging Goes Corporate'
by Farhad Manjoo. Wired, May 9, 2002
<http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,52380,00.html>

'The coming of the blogs'
by Baron Lowery. News.com, April 19, 2002
<http://news.com.com/2010-1076-886773.html>

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