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Time for a change: homeland security 2.0
By WDavidStephenson | July 30, 2007
You’ll notice this blog has a new title: Stephenson blogs on homeland security 2.0 et al.
Same basic content, but the name change reflects the fact that my vision of homeland security is largely congruent with the description Tim O’Reilly, generally acknowledged as the “father of Web 2.0,” gives it:
“Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an ‘architecture of participation,’and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.
Bear in mind that Web 2.0 is an overused, somewhat vague, and subject to abuse term (check Jim Rapoza’s “Next-gen Jim Rapoza” for a good send-up!). However, I do think it gives a fairly accurate idea of what my networked homeland security vision.
Let me explain why: CONTINUED…
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