From N-Drive to RSS-Drive to the Just-in-Time Web.

Bernie Goldbach tells us how most of the data he consumes comes from outside and flows across his N Drive, as he calls it.

It flows across the network--my N Drive is what I call it--and I see it in a browser, Acrobat reader, or a document or spreadsheet viewer. I don't save data locally and I don't save it on my N Drive. I mark it as social bookmarks so that it can be shared with others.

At the same time MAKE blog draws our attention to Box.net's filefeed which lets people easily subscribe to your shared files through any web or software-based RSS reader. This is very interesting because it essentially delivers filing sharing through RSS feeds (as one commentator points out).

Both these weblog posts underline the emergence of a small pieces, loosely joined internet, or Web 2.0. The read/write web, web-services model, RSS plumbing, enclosures, tagging etc, etc, together obviate the need for centralising things which can better float around in an amorphous state until stitched together on-the-fly for an often transient purpose. I call this the Just-in-time Web.