Where the web is heading - and info on Powerpoint design

As always, the web is constantly changing as people come up with new ideas and implem,ent them. One of the biggest things lately is on-line collaboration - a bunch of people pooling their collective knowledge to produce something useful. Wikipedia is an example - an online encyclopedia where anyone can contribute (but how do you ensure accuracy?)

This trend will affect how you use the web - and especially how you research!

Also below are links to information about readibility on-screen, and info about font choices.

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Line Length affects readability
http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/42/text_length.htm

Font Choices for Web (applies to Powerpoint as well!)
http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Website-Development/The-Fine-Art-of-Font-Choices.html

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What is Web 2.0?
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html?page=1

Web 2.0 - fantasy or fact?
http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Website-Development/Web-2-0-Fad-or-the-Future.html
http://www.site-reference.com/articles/Search-Engines/Following-Yahoo-to-a-Wealth-of-Traffic.html


Delicious site
http://del.icio.us/

Answers @ Yahoo
http://answers.yahoo.com/

folksonomy: refers to the collaborative but unsophisticated way in which information is being categorized on the web. Instead of using a centralized form of classification, users are encouraged to assign freely chosen keywords (called tags) to pieces of information or data, a process known as tagging. Examples of web services that use tagging include those designed to allow users to publish and share photographs, personal libraries, bookmarks, social software generally, and most blog software, which permits authors to assign tags to each entry.