At Last! The Last Content List - Page 5

12. Wikis

Of course its classical incarnation is Wikipedia but I've been surprised to find of late that I'm looking at a regular website that's Mediawiki powered. There's a list of sites in English here.

13. Games and Virtuality

Games would not be my strong point so I'm filching here. Massively Multiplayer Online Games seem to be the big category for future development, taking players ever deeper into a virtual life. Of note for content fans is Second Life's inner world where people make content In World (gigs, cafe performances, art ,and no doubt soon, games). Of the talked about developments are deeper characterisation and greater freedom to combine the features of character sets.

14. Classifieds

Yes, the very very last category — classifieds. Of late web commentators have been waking up to the truth that classifieds are deeply engaging. I used to find myself forever browsing through newspaper job classifieds, particularly when I was out of work. I can see the compulsion. Craigslist is the biggest classifieds community and Craig Newmark often talks about the company's success in terms of talking with their users. It's a community that's grown together and to some extent determines what Craigslist can charge for.

That's it — it's done. A first draft of the list of new content types. Will be back later to compile it into one big list and then starting next week trying some commentary.

But I forgot —

15. Adult.

Adult sites are something I might want to by-pass for the sake of decency and I will. Except to say I think and hope it may be possible for sites to evolve that take a mature view of adult sexuality and are not hardcore porn. One area is female sexuality and in particular yaoi literature and art. Here is a genre where women can create sexually adventurous content without giving any offence and it seems to me a model for what might evolve in other attempts to create sexual content that's free to air.

Now we're done.

Article Author: Haydn Shaughnessy

A journalist and critic, Haydn writes on where the web's going as well as on the impact of the digital on art and culture. He also does a bit of food writing over at TheDietCast.com.

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