Mark Zuckerberg’s Comment on Sharing (start at 0:26 – stop at 0:39)

wordpress.org and web 2.0

WordPress.org application of Web 2.0. Some of the features which prove this link is the way in which both WordPress.org and Web 2.0 allow a variety of user’s voices’ to be heard. Both popular and niche blogs for example are posted, leaving none to discriminated. Additionally, both allow users’ add value to the site, and belong to the community which is generally accessibly via multiple forms of media.

However, the capability of this site to both empower its “producers’ while managing its sustainability can be questioned. As mentioned previously, users are free to contribute what they like to WordPress.org, demonstrating its capability to an empowering form of media.  On the other hand,  users are able to contribute to the website and as such feel a sense of belonging to a community, at the same time, users must adhere to copyright laws and regulations to ensure that intellectual material is protected and this can work against the idea of a decentralised system, as there are still restrictions imposed on users.

Joanna. Jenny Tracy