International Law

World Live Web

Media Post's Online Spin blog highlights the World Live Web:

Move over, World Wide Web, and give a warm welcome to the World Live Web (WLW). Actually it?s been around for many years now. Unfortunately it hasn?t popped up in our beloved industry until late.

Doc Searls is the Senior Editor for the Linux Journal, the original (and still the leading) Linux publication, which was calling it the ?Live Web? over six years ago. But what is it? Well a variety of elements including blogs, feeds, tags, etc. The concept doesn?t deal with plain ole static Web pages; it?s dynamic and ever-changing.

Searls posted some compelling info over three years ago now. Typically in our business I think three years ago is beyond old news. However, this has a shelf life and applies to folks just starting to question it and explore it. Searls outlines the ?difference between the Wide Web and the Live Web:?

• The simple difference is the Live Web is syndicated. That means every time something is posted or updated, a notification goes out, informing the world about it.
• The most familiar syndication method is RSS, which commonly stands for Really Simple Syndication.
• Wide Web search engines send out spiders to crawl through every site on the Web?Live Web search engines crawl only syndicated pages and only when they?re notified by a fresh feed from those pages.
• Wide Web indexing is proactive and archives everything, while Live Web indexing is reactive and archives only what?s fresh.
• What matters most usually is what?s freshest ? or both relevant and fresh.

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Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on April 22, 2008 (boomark / email).