Office 2007 - A Usability Revolution
Short and simple — and I’m talking specifically about Word’s integration with XML-RPC engines out there, such as Wordpress crosses the technology chasm and lowers the entry barrier to anyone who want’s to express themselves online.
Online Revolution
Big business silences Public Argument
Big business with it’s limitless resources caused a marginalization of the intelligent public. For a long time, the public forum, envisioned as this country’s forefathers as a balance of power has been silent.
Mainly the forum was drowned out by the noise of the television advertisements, their partisan “news” reports, and subtle inferences to the good life (a fantasy life lived by characters in major motion pictures). Their purpose, simple. Exposure and saturation of the brands.
The only pipeline of information was carefully tailored, censored and targeted; feeding the public a reality which only exists in the mind of the major motion picture’s screenplay author. Packaged and presented as truth of how we should be and feel, the ideals were positioned such that the consumers began to adapt them as their own.
The New People’s Forum
The Internet is steadily becoming more important and big business is taking notice. However, big business by no means of an imagination could it stretch its tendrils to silent every node. The search engine army is moving at a frantic pace to catalogue and index the content of this new public forum.
Freedom lost and Found
For years, freedom was lost, but now it’s found! 