Should researchers pay more attention to the Now Web — if we could analyze the “Then Web” against last year’s “Now Web” what would it reveal?
I found this fascinating quote today:
Simply put, it’s the difference between discovery and search, between the “Now Web” and the “Then Web.” Here’s a more specific analogy: In college, most of us spent a lot of time in the library but also in a social hub like the campus coffee shop. One was a place for digging up information, the other a more dynamic, conversational setting, where ideas were casually exchanged. Google has been the web’s library: archival, organized and oriented around research. Twitter and Facebook, on the other hand, are coffee shops: instantaneous, conversational and oriented around discovery.
Kent Anderson under, The Scholarly Kitchen, May 2009
You should read the whole article.
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