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Now let's briefly talk about some pros and cons for different web technologies. We're going to cover traditional websites, wikis, web logs or blogs and finally podcasting. Some pros and cons for traditional websites; these are your standard web 1.0 websites. They are quick, easy, infinitely flexible and you can retain complete control of these if you want. A traditional website is a blank space. You can do anything with it, make it anything you want to. However, these traditional websites discourage collaboration. They're not infinitely updatable. You can't have contributors necessarily, you can't have people adding and removing content as they see fit. It can require WYSIWYG. This stands for what you see is what you get software. This is a piece of software that allows you to maybe drag and drop elements to make a website look how you would like for it to. This is easier and uses more of a graphical user interface. If you don't use this type of software, you have to have some coding knowledge in order to create a traditional website or you could perhaps just hire somebody to do it. So some pros and cons of a wiki, as a converse to a traditional website, they, by their nature, encourage collaboration, sharing ideas and they're infinitely expandable, as long as there is a new topic to be created and there will be everyday because there's always something new coming out and being created or a new event taking place. They're infinitely expandable. Somebody can write about that topic. However, they can be manipulated with incorrect or even malicious data. Somebody can add to a topic for a good or a bad purpose. Weblogs, or blogs, are much like a traditional website. They're generally added to by one person, sometimes a small group of people, short entries. They can be used with RSS technology. This is really simple syndication, meaning you can subscribe to that weblog and then read the entries as they're posted in a RSS reader, some sort of website such as Google Reader, for example or Bloglines, something that will update every time that weblog is updated. However, these are generally focused on a one-to-many communication. That means there's generally one or a couple of people that are updating to a wider audience. These are not as community-oriented as a wiki, which is more of a many-to-many communication method. Finally, we have podcasting. This allows someone to actually make a voice recording to talk about a different topic that they want to discuss or a group of people doing maybe a roundtable session recorded to be shared offline with different users. One really cool medium of sharing this content is in iTunes and I fully encourage you to check this out if you haven't done so. I really like the way that iTunes distributes podcasts. So it allows someone to download that podcast, put it on, say, their iPod and listen to it anywhere they go. However, this does require said iTunes and said iPod and can be more difficult for a new user to figure out. Where the other mediums are just using a simple web browser, this is requiring some extra hardware and software. So it's more expensive and again, can be more difficult. I fully encourage you to check out these different web 2.0 technologies and web 1.0 as in the case of the traditional website. Check them out, see which one interests you the most and dig into it.