Comments on: Decentralizing the Web http://broadbandpolitics.com/2002/05/decentralizing-the-web/ On the theory and practice of networking Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:33:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kat http://broadbandpolitics.com/2002/05/decentralizing-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-636 Kat Thu, 30 May 2002 20:29:57 +0000 http://mossback.org/archives/2002/05/decentralizing-the-web/#comment-636 I think you may be right -- if you include what I'd call 'info & links' sites. Those may not be as often updated as blogs, but they offer reasonably timely information (or sometimes timeless info -- like curry recipes), and links to useful related information. I think blogs have contributed some and (oddly enough) I also think the whole 'dot.com' crash contributed also. Most of those 'dot.com' companies tried to keep people on-site. Their demise sent people looking for sites that offered similar content, and those were sites that didn't hesitate to link to others. I think you may be right — if you include what I’d call ‘info & links’ sites. Those may not be as often updated as blogs, but they offer reasonably timely information (or sometimes timeless info — like curry recipes), and links to useful related information.

I think blogs have contributed some and (oddly enough) I also think the whole ‘dot.com’ crash contributed also. Most of those ‘dot.com’ companies tried to keep people on-site. Their demise sent people looking for sites that offered similar content, and those were sites that didn’t hesitate to link to others.

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