Renee’s Blog Post about Week 4’s reading demonstrated a clear understanding of what David Weinberger was saying.

“Everyone is an author on the internet, everyone is a participator and they make contributions to this great community.We don’t get our authority from degree here, but from what we are writing. The Web is a voice with affect and passion. We listen, write, discuss and evaluate and create the Web!”

I think this is exactly what Weinberger was aiming to communicate that “The lively plurality of voices sometimes can and should outweigh the stentorian voice of experts.” He talks about how the human voice is richer and in some ways more reliable, perhaps because it is more relatable? Academics and experts know what they’re talking about and therefore can not be, or highly unlikely, be wrong and “were not looking up answers” on people’s sites, we are instead asking questions, reading other peoples responses and sometimes even answering questions ourselves. We are researching to see if people have the same worries as us, or share the same opinions.

“The Web is a written world, and the 300 million people on the Web are it’s authors.” The Web is a tool that gives ordinary people a platform to express and expand their knowledge, and it’s the ordinary people that are being listened to.