Comments on: Musings on open-ness, extensibility and the writeable web http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/03/11/musings-on-open-ness-extensibility-and-the-writeable-web/ Nic Brisbourne's view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: paulpod http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/03/11/musings-on-open-ness-extensibility-and-the-writeable-web/#comment-1509 paulpod Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:20:38 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/03/11/musings-on-open-ness-extensibility-and-the-writeable-web/#comment-1509 I think the more recent changes to making software more accessible have been in the degrees of involvement. Previously it was picking a template style - or - hacking one together from scratch. No inbetween, no learning curve, just high level or low level involvement. Now, you can pick a style, tinker with the elements, add widgets, dig into the style sheet (much easier to tweak than editing ALL the templates for example), connect to other data feeds, re-use the outputted content in other software or sites ...all the way to digging into code. This smooth transition from shallow to deep involvement, even if you break things and have to reinstall on the way, is really enabling many more people to 'do their thing' now. It's great! I think the more recent changes to making software more accessible have been in the degrees of involvement. Previously it was picking a template style – or – hacking one together from scratch. No inbetween, no learning curve, just high level or low level involvement.

Now, you can pick a style, tinker with the elements, add widgets, dig into the style sheet (much easier to tweak than editing ALL the templates for example), connect to other data feeds, re-use the outputted content in other software or sites …all the way to digging into code.

This smooth transition from shallow to deep involvement, even if you break things and have to reinstall on the way, is really enabling many more people to ‘do their thing’ now. It’s great!

]]> By: paulpod http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/03/11/musings-on-open-ness-extensibility-and-the-writeable-web/#comment-11182 paulpod Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:20:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/03/11/musings-on-open-ness-extensibility-and-the-writeable-web/#comment-11182 I think the more recent changes to making software more accessible have been in the degrees of involvement. Previously it was picking a template style - or - hacking one together from scratch. No inbetween, no learning curve, just high level or low level involvement. Now, you can pick a style, tinker with the elements, add widgets, dig into the style sheet (much easier to tweak than editing ALL the templates for example), connect to other data feeds, re-use the outputted content in other software or sites ...all the way to digging into code. This smooth transition from shallow to deep involvement, even if you break things and have to reinstall on the way, is really enabling many more people to 'do their thing' now. It's great! I think the more recent changes to making software more accessible have been in the degrees of involvement. Previously it was picking a template style – or – hacking one together from scratch. No inbetween, no learning curve, just high level or low level involvement.

Now, you can pick a style, tinker with the elements, add widgets, dig into the style sheet (much easier to tweak than editing ALL the templates for example), connect to other data feeds, re-use the outputted content in other software or sites …all the way to digging into code.

This smooth transition from shallow to deep involvement, even if you break things and have to reinstall on the way, is really enabling many more people to ‘do their thing’ now. It’s great!

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