Microcontent

MicroContent

This refers to the fact that we are learning more and more through chunks of knowledge, which are easier to produce by most member of a peer community, putting them back together ourselves, rather than using prepackaged macrocontent.

"With the advent of Internet, publishing has become accessible to everyone. People have been creating and gathering content and made this content available to everyone in the world. Where web-pages and -sites as MacroContent. MacroContent enfolds MicroContent.

Completely creating and maintaining MacroContent is too hard for most people. People seem to be much better in producing MicroContent, such as small thoughts, items in discussions, comments, bookmarks, etc. Blogging allows people to write and publish such small thoughts episodically. Each blog entry, consisting just of a title and a description, is automatically merged into a web-page and this is made available to everyone." http://www.sivas.com/aleene/microcontent/index.php?id=C0_63_12