BLOG 1 Rewrite

Today the web is more interactive then ever. At first the webs interactivity was limited to giving you the ability to choose what data you wanted to access. Now you can post your own data, like blogs, such as the one i am writing now, or write in a forum on any topic, even write on some ones “wall”. I do these things every day as most do in some form or another. I go CNN.com where i am able to create my own news segments by adding video segments of different news stories to a playlist. On the New York Times web site, you are offered links from their current articles to related stories of the past, which allows you to gain background on issues. These sites create user center content by allowing the user to choose the content. Facebook.com takes this to an extreme by creating a forum where you can view news on your community of friends, news that is generated by not only what they write but what they do. All of these websites utilize many media mediums to deliver their content, such as video, sound, and images, Allowing interaction with that media which offers an enhanced online experience that people only dreamed about, or feared ten years ago. All of these features in websites, on a basic level offer content in all available mediums, allowing you to filter that content, and then share your thoughts on the content that you have seen. This is the essence of interactivity and selectivity and it has only been made possible because of the data that the web offers.