Web 2.0 backlash? January 30, 2008
Posted by Will in libraries, virtual life.Tags: amateurs, Andrew Keen, bloggers, Joe Schallan, Library2.0, professionals, publib, Web2.0
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Here’s another attack from the ”nattering nabobs of negativism” as applied to Web 2.0, taken from a PubLib posting yesterday:
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:51:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Joe Schallan <jschallan@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Publib] 2.0: It cheapens us, it cheapens everyone
To: Publib publib@webjunction.org
This book from last summer got under my radar and I have just discovered it. Since it directly relates to my recent remarks on crowdsourcing, I thought I’d share an excerpt with the list:
Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur — How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy, New York: Doubleday/Currency, 2007.
Blurb: In a hard-hitting and provocative polemic, Silicon Valley insider Keen exposes the grave consequences of today’s new participatory Web 2.0. He reveals how amateur, user-generated free content threatens the very innovation and creativity that forms the fabric of American achievement.
mumbo jumbo web site names December 21, 2007
Posted by Will in online tools, technology, virtual life.Tags: web2.0 names naming web
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I’m sure you’re as confused as I am by all the Dr. Seuess-style web service names that pop up these days: Doostang. Wufoo. Bliin. Thoof. Bebo. Meebo. Meemo. Kudit. Raketu. Etelos. Iyogi. Oyogi. Qoop. Fark. Kijiji. Zixxo. Zoogmo.
You get the picture. David Pogue at the New York Times has written an excellent analysis of this trend.
Will
