If you’ve not already come across it, ‘Everything is a Remix‘ is an ambitious four-part documentary on the history and cultural significance of sampling and collaborative creation which delves into the influences behind some of the most popular works of music and film in modern history (produced by Kirby Ferguson and Robert Grigsby Wilson).
The web as we know it is changing. Be these changes small or large we have already gone way beyond a mere collection of pages linked together and are now at the stage of connecting individuals through social interaction and harnessing its collective intelligence. The next step appears to be evolving towards the concept of the semantic web through the use of feeds and markup technologies (RDF, OWL, XML, Microformats etc.) to represent meanings in information which allow us to infer and connect knowledge within and around it. A lot of this will involve annotating information to make it machine understandable (and not just readable); we will design for re-use of information. The upshot of all this should mean that the user spends less…