Wednesday, December 19, 2007
WWW Defined
Here's a simple, yet interesting example of just what the World Wide Web is capable of. I was inbetween edits at work when I saw a story about What's in your fridge? on the BBC, so I posted off a quick comment on their form. A few minutes later, one of their editors emailed me back asking if I could send a photo of our fridge to them. I called my wife and asked her to take a picture and email it to me so I could email it back to the BBC. A few minutes later my wife emailed me a couple of photos to pick from and I chose one and forwarded it back to the BBC editor. Just a short while later she sent me back the link for the article (the image below is the header).
So this 30-40 minutes of international colloboration involved my Taiwanese wife (who I met on the Internet after she moved to Canada), the midwestern Me and a BBC editor with an hispanic sounding name, posting info on an international story on the BBC Web site - is that cool or what?
Labels: computers, government, rave
