Web2.0 More Than Explained

Who Writes This Stuff?
Well, Me. My name is Shawn Day and I am a PhD student in the History Department at McMaster University in Hamilton. Academically, my research interests revolve about nineteenth century Canadian economic, business and social history. Most specifically the role of drink and those who served them in late 19thC Ontario. More broadly I explore the adaptation of technology and information visualisation to the pedagogical process. Professionally, I earned my stripes in the dotcom boom as jack-of-all trades in co-founded development ventures. Prior to that I was a self-employed journeyman involved in diverse aspects of information architecture. I have some history in technology and a joy in life is catalyzing the reaction between technology and the study of history.
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The 'new' TAPoRware Word Cloud is dynamically generated on page load and takes the words on that page as source. Hovering over a word will pop up the number of time it occurs on this page

Feb 03

This is one thoughtful piece of webart…if we are considering beautiful evidence…this short video by Michael Wesch gets it very right. Its absolutely brilliant. I am sure its going to start to get some attention over the next few days. It is perhaps best paired with this wonderfully creative , but a little more fanciful, web2.0 video that won a First Post Award Competition a few months back. Wesch’s video gives you a brilliantly logical progression through the latest buzzwords actually using technologies themselves to demonstrate themselves. What better place to throw it up for comment than YouTube?