Comments on: The Decline of the “Webmaster”

By: Church Website Design

Church Website Design — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:13:29 +0000

A few are calling it “webguy, web manager” but the ultimate name is webmaster.

By: Master of the Web. Still Cool? at The Pursuit of Techyness

Master of the Web. Still Cool? at The Pursuit of Techyness — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:20:56 +0000

[...] Clickfire’s SEO blog agrees with me on this topic when he writes: With the advent of 3G and smartphones, the webmaster is no longer the mysterious guy behind a desktop or in an air-conditioned datacenter pulling switches. He’s at the coffee shop. [...]

By: avi

avi — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:15:00 +0000

Web Master is not the master of web these days
Probably Social Web master has a bit more relevance these days

By: Avik

Avik — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:08:02 +0000

Still the term Web master is handy enough to fetch a good profile.
From the seo point of view also the term is very relevant.
Web Master term gives a complete feeling about all web operations.
It rocks

By: Emory Rowland

Emory Rowland — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:01:15 +0000

Okay, Paul, you’ve inspired me :)

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By: Paul Baines

Paul Baines — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:14:57 +0000

It’s been a long time since I have used the term “webmaster”, then recently my gf asked if I could redesign her company’s landscaping website and gather some relevant inbound links. For the last few weeks I have been receiving emails that begin with just that word, suddenly I am a master of the web, it does seem a rather over elaborate description for a rather mundane set of activities. It’s true, no one is the master of the web, the internet is a true democracy, if people like what you do then you’re up on high, if they don’t you disappear without a trace. I was thinking of a few alternative descriptions, here’s a few:- techmage, coding emperor, president of design, netgod, physical incarnation of the lord of all virtuality, e-field-commander, geekzilla. Just a few alternatives if anyone fancies a new title ;)

By: Ed Kohler

Ed Kohler — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:46:41 +0000

Probably the biggest change is in webmaster as gatekeeper to website publishing.

By: Professional Website Designer

Professional Website Designer — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:10:30 +0000

few are calling “webguy, web manager” but the ultimate name is webmaster

By: ashok

ashok — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:36:02 +0000

I think it is very important the term stays around. There’s definitely an attempt with web technology to make things more democratic – software that makes blogging/site building easier; news where you vote on headlines; user recommendation/review engines.

But here’s the thing – all that is an “attempt.” One funny thing about the web is that when you press people who have real knowledge of how to get things done on here, they tend to share a certain political/cultural outlook. They’re usually libertarian, progressive, and prone in some cases to outlandish conspiracy theories (Utne, a socialist magazine, and I say that because they’d call themselves that, once noted that a lot of Truthers were working for Microsoft). If people don’t think that’s influenced discourse on the Web in subtle (and sometimes not-subtle-at all) ways, they’re out of their minds.

So it’s important in any given process to keep track of authority and who’s in charge, and not to assign blame, but to just be aware.

By: Angela Pallatto

Angela Pallatto — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:44:47 +0000

The real question is what are they calling webmasters nowadays, because those are the SEO keywords worth checking out.

The many jobs once assigned to a single webmaster have become too big for one person to handle. At this point, there are developers, designers, marketing teams, IT departments and writers that all work together. To use the term webmaster at this point just screams that you are a small company and out of date.