Web 2.0? I’m still waiting for a pedestrian definition of this term so that I can understand it. Is it a Facebook community? Is it constant web connection through our phones? Is it free wifi connections at coffeeshops? Who knows. Maybe I’ll need to wait for the 3.0 upgrade to figure it out.

What I’d like to go back to is Web 1.0, or maybe even 0.5, back when pages were basic, easy to use (and load. read: no flash) and the page real estate wasn’t occupied with 85% advertising. To do this, I’ve discovered a wonderful site that runs a javascript (actually I think it’s CSS) that will script strip away all that crap that you don’t want to see: the dancing baby promoting credit card debt consolidation, the whirlwind of yearbook photos of people you don’t want to communicate with ever again and the chicks being “surprised” by the camera as they dance in their cubicles. How stupid do these advertisers think we are, that anything in motion will catch our eyes? I digress. Deep breath.

Arc90 has a site that deletes all that crap. Here’s what you do: set your prefs, drag that button icon to your browsers links and then when you go to a site or article you can click on that link in your browser and it will strip away all the crap and give you only the words you need. Simple. Beautiful. Fuck you advertisers!

In a similar vain, to ease viewing and making it cohesive to view on iPhones, I’ve installed a plug-in on futurejunkie that will change viewing from a fully-rendered page to more simplistic, easier to navigate panels. It goes from this to this , breaking each entry into its own panel. (This will affect the 0.00001% of you that have stumbled here on an iPhone.)  There is a dropdown that gives you a preview and a link to fully expand it. You can review and leave comments. Simple.