Sept. 11

I am guilty of being somewhat of a Web 2.0 agnostic. I just wish someone had come up with a better terminology for connoting sea changes in the development and evolution of the web than just appropriating version numbers. It’s not like Web 2.0 had a development cycle and a beta and was then released on January 1st 2000 to rave reviews. It’s not a product for sale or a service by a company. You can’t pinpoint the day the Web was legacy web and then the day the web was Web 2.0, the shift is gradual and slow and almost invisible and by the time we’re able to identify a big shift, the next one has probably already arrived. So the name is dumb and I don’t like it at all. It’s not as if the trends don’t exist, people just adopt ridiculous labels for them. But Facebook is cool and youtube is neat so whatever.