The Modern Web – How the Creation of Content is So Easy
April 28, 2011I recently wrote a post about the ASP.NET Razor rendering engine. The post wasn’t that significant, but what was significant was that I did it from my phone while on the subway and then at physical therapy.
Creating content has become extremely easy on the modern web. Whether it’s through a platform like Twitter, YouTube or Facebook, or through a self-hosted or created package. Either way, the creation of content is easy. And it needs to be. It’s one key to providing value with your site.
Any given site, in order to provide value, needs to either provide content or provide functionality. Often, the difference between these two can be blurred – while Gmail’s functionality is clearly impressive, it’s ultimately a method of providing content. The same goes for Facebook and other sites with a lot of functionality.
Thus, there is a lot of content flying around, from individual, small sites to massive, cutting-edge applications.
This is what the modern web has become – an egalitarian medium where anyone can add content quickly and easily. While the creation if good content itself can be hard and time consuming, the addition of that content is fast and easy.
This does create a lot of unnecessary and superfluous noise (check out some Twitter hahstags to see what I mean), ultimately, it’s a good thing as it gives everyone the chance to be heard. Not a guarantee, but a chance.
PS – I wrote this post in the same physical therapy session. 🙂
