Do you speak my language?

Rather than limiting the web to be just like a newspaper, book, library or even a television show, it's make sense to say the web is actually an ongoing conversation through various different extensions of the computer. Starting from the obvious, a good portion of why we log onto the web is to have conversations, whether it be instant via MSN or AOL Messenger, or delayed like simply sending emails or leaving comments on someone's blogs, for example. But when you think about it, from the moment we connect to our local network, we are constantly in conversation with the web and vice versa. Through the keyboard and the mouse, which techically act as our "eyes and ears" in this virtual conversation, we are always "talking" to the web and in return it talks back to us everytime, for example, it displays a page we asked for. It may be a pretty authoritative conversation since it seems we're always giving instructions and the web is always giving us answers but, in a sense, when we type something in the address bar or even on the page, and even click on active links, we're sending out our bits'n'pieces of a conversation and the web will hopefully always respond even if it's to say, "listen there is a problem and I cannot find it". While conversation may be flowing, understanding the web's lanugage sometimes is a different challenge altogether!