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Content is everything

The new culture of content

The web is no longer about surfing and passive reading, listening, or watching; it’s about creating, sharing, socialising and collaborating. Increasingly, many new websites and services are spawning the creative energy of countless souls cobbling together their own services from customisable sites. By the millions, they’re gathering and disseminating their own news with blogs and podcasts, creating articles and photo feeds from their favorite sites and even annotating them with helpful text tags.

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This is the culture of the web today – yet how can mere mortals produce the right content for everyone to see? Or do we find niche content that a few want to look at/read/utilise? A few people in every country still produces a viable site…

I’m not overly sure about the content of some sites. I prefer targetted content that is easy to get at and view with the least amount of time wastage. I particularly hate websites that are loaded with tables and graphics that take an age to load. I may put up with it if it comes from an amateur site – but not from a business site. Yet I do want content.

If I am operating at 1024×768 I don’t want to see a lot of wasted space around the page – I want content. May be a larger font if you need to fill up the space – but I don’t want a lot of block colour around the place.

And if a site could load in 1 – 2 seconds why put graphics and tables that make it take 30 seconds to load – even on broadband? Lets get serious and use good content. Not lots a pretty advertising blocks – just a good read.

Anyway – read the linked article above and see what you think?

Paul

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