It's great to see the cover article in Newsweek being all about the web 2.0/social media space (they use the term user-generated content). Why is it, though, that the web 2.0 world gets excited by this - I thought the whole point was that the dead tree media model was over. I'm I the only one seeing this irony? I believe that the (old) establishment still represents a certain level of authority which we will find hard to give up.
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I'm optimistic to think the excitement results in Web 2.0 spreading beyond the "web 2.0 world" you mentioned. But I think there is an element of truth to the authority idea.
Posted by: Ken Yarmosh | March 27, 2006 at 11:20 PM