What is 3-dimensional text?

Perhaps a better question is "what is 3-dimensional content?" After Blaise Aguera y Arcas wow'd 'em at Microsoft with Seadragon (now Photosynth), the next question is "if we can do that with pictures, can we do that with content [a.k.a. knowledge]?

How can the Internet provide us with a "depth of information"? In other words, is it possible to create a deeper way of seeing information? Not via simple link lists such as with wikipedia (which is actually done manually), but by using the power of the machine.

Web 2.o sites such as del.icio.us and Microsoft's Listas create 3-dimensional content typographically with differing font sizes in a technique called "clouds". Here, the human community contributes to the knowledge base through the popularity of certain sites.

But the Internet, as a vast repository of data, needs more to be a vast provider of information.

A service currently under development is trueknowledge.com. Take a look at this video from techcrunch.com. They have developed a search engine that not only locates a number of relevant sites, but also answers direct questions. Check it out.

Hello World!

Greetings all and welcome to my blog.

The "blogosphere" is an enormous collaborative effort which is expanding daily and at an enormous rate. Many fear this growth. Many more do not understand it.

Yet, at the end of the day, what blog is and will become is an integral part of the Web 2.0 "Rich Internet Experience" where people like you and I can contribute to and be a participant in the collective human experience.

Or, another way to look at it is like this: The Internet is only the machine. It is you and I who are the players. Thus, we seek to enjoy not a rich Internet experience, rather we seek a rich human experience.