johnlew - 9:19 pm on Apr 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

I'd have to disagree with most of you. Pick up dreamweaver and you'll find that you can now do seamless dynamic database driven sites with minimal know-how. Wikipedia, a second generation web product, is a working demonstration of how huge bodies of information can be assembled and edited in a decentralized way.

In general, more brilliant, more dynamic, and more rich content is become easier and easier to put online. Major media outlets are loosing ground to blogs. Decentralized information is becoming politically significant. Big business like Monster are loosing share to the little guy like craigslist.

If you consider the glory days of the web to be plastering a picture of yourself on a webpage and talking about how much you like sailing, then expect it to end. However, if, like myself, you think that the best the web has to offer materializes when brilliant and incredible publication is sufficiently advanced that the difference between the big boys and Susan in her parents garage is not production value but content, so only the most creative and clever wins, then the glory days of the web are still in the making.