Daniel Siepmann - Coding is Art

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Topic: internet

Contributing to the internet

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The internet (more precisely the www) is a decentralized network where everyone can take part. Everyone should be able to contribute, e.g. by providing content.

I've discovered the www at the end of 90s and became a web developer. The www is one of my passions and I believe in the decentralized human build www. We should not hand over the www to a small group of big corporations.

I'll show you how I contribute to the www. Which software do I use, and what's the benefit.

Joyful internet: Browsable content

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I hated tag clouds because I didn't understand them. I didn't understand the benefit of those clouds. Today I've understood the huge benefit and actually think they are a must-have. They make using the internet more joyful.

I'll try to explain why I think every website profits from being browsable. I'll show examples where websites lost this feature and are more or less useless to me, and even lose profit. And I'll try to provide ideas how to solve the situation.

Broken Internet: Search Engines

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Today's search engines are broken. They destroyed the discoverable part of the internet. We are no longer able to find content on the internet. We are pushed towards their own content and big players like Wikipedia or stack overflow. I no longer follow this path and tried to summarize my thoughts and ideas on that topic.