The internet big bang - how blogs will relocate the internet - Part 1

A while back I had a bit of a vision of what the internet is going to (perhaps) become.

Now, I’m certainly no futurist so feel free to take this as large pinch of salt as is required, but I think that I’m onto something when I was talking about neighbourspheres.

The internet (bar it’s very early existence) is a phenomenon that started in a distributed and, to a degree, global manner. Online locations have usually been defined by ideas and concepts rather than physical matter which, while revolutionising communication, information & culture has lead to what Mejias calls a degree of distancelessness (rather than the closeness that we experience in our physical environments).

This is a problem and a tension and in resolving itself I think we are going to see the physical relocation of the internet and blogs and the emerging forms of digital identity they provide forming the basis of this.

I reckon that this is going to be chacterised by the internet big bang.

As the use of mobile devices and the ubiquitous internet rolls out there will be a relocation of focus from the global to the local. This will simply be the result of our capacity to locally operate (difficult, even impossible, now).

As we digitally map and annotate our landscapes and develop our digital identity what we shall see, together with a more general reaction to globalised media and homogeneous culture, is the use of the digital in very specific areas. This is exactly what Sensis are trying to leverage in Australia… and have done pretty successfully through their citysearch operations.

In essence we’re going to get a big bang… broad distribution and universal use and blogs, I think, have a key role in that.

More of which I’ll talk about next week in part II, together with a little / large blogsavvy project which *might* be just what’s needed…