Is it too soon still to speak of the Twitter economy? Yeah, just a
bit. But you'd be wise not to ignore the new vehicles for spreading the
word.

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Sarah Parez: Over the weekend, it seemed that everyone in the tech blogosphere contributed to the discussion around fractured blog comments; Robert Scoble even went so far as to say that the "era of blogger's control" is over. What all these discussions hinged on was whether or not a web service called Shyftr had the right to appropriate bloggers' RSS feeds and build their brand around our content (a practice they've now modified due to this outcry).

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BusinessWeek: Traditionalists and techies at Web portals clash over the core focus of online media.

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"I and many WordPress “representatives”, along with the developers and staff of WordPress and Automattic,
are getting more and more complaints and requests for help dealing with
content theft issues. We all need to clear this up and spread the word
about how this works in relationship to WordPress."

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Gadgetopia pointed their readers to a site with a number of screen captures for how the Internet looked like in 1996. Almost a year ago, I posted a screen capture of the first site I did in that era. I'm somewhat pleased that the appearance of my site was no worse than the sites of well known companies. The author brings up the point that you have to consider the technology back then to why sites looked the way they did.

In their defense, the technology was different in
1996. Although Internet Explorer 3.0 could run Java applets and
inline media, Netscape Navigator could not, and in any case nobody
felt comfortable doing anything more complicated than making a few
animated GIFs.

Most people who were quite active on the Internet in the 1990's shouldn't be surprised with the way the Internet looked back then. I can easily recall the controversy of whether to design sites for 640x480 or 800x600 screens. We were simply limited in how we designed our sites by the technology we were using. However, what was our excuse for not providing better content than what we did?

Quality content is not only about content you can see, it is also about content hidden to human eyes. This post explains in
details what hidden content is and how it can be optimized to maximize chances of having your pages correctly seen by any kind of reader (i.e. human, robot, application…). Taking care of hidden content is not only a basic accessibility
requirement. It is a way to ensure everyone can access an optimized
version of your content. It is good for your readers comfort and for
your reputation, so don’t skip it.

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"Content online is king. Internet users spend nearly half their time online viewing news or entertainment content, surpassing activities such as sending e-mails, shopping or searching for information, according to a study released by the Online Publishers Association on Monday."

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"Widgets are important because they fundamentally change the way content is disseminated on the Web. Instead of going to a Web site to see a video or buying something from an online store, users can do those things from the comfort of their own personal Web page. "Web 2.0 isn't just about user-created content," says Dave Morgan, CEO of advertising company Tacoda . "It's about user-distributed content. Widgets let you take the content you created, or someone you don't know created, or The New York Times created, and distribute it.""

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