'Any other name would be half as sweet'

Software guru Mike Matson (feel sure he would not mind me calling him that) and I are currently having a little professional spat at the use of the term 'Web 2.0' to describe what is happening at the moment in the escalating proliferation of tools to do things that you had never even thought of doing before you could ... if you get what I mean. He argues, and I actually think he is right that it is silly to give the idea whaich is just ' a bit more sophisticated than what we had before ' a numerical tag ... and I add ' especially as we didn't have 'Web 1.0' (did we?) and are we going to wait for 'Web 2.1' or even 'Web 3' ... still it does make you think what other might feel about this.

Discussing this with my friend Tricia has led to this 'informative' blog ... 'The Britannica Blog - where ideas matter' and an article ( in a blog - this is irony I think ) called 'Web 2.0: the Sleep of Reason'. The blog itself is worth a read but the comments are the best bits!

And when you have read Part 1 you can always read the sequel ... Part 2

This blog also directs me ( and so does Tricia) to the blog of Clay Shirky and that of Andrew Keen.