My Web 2.0 Blog

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Since starting this blog a whopping two days ago, I’ve been thinking about who reads and writes blogs. My assumption is that people in their 20s and 30s are the main contributors to the blogosphere, and probably the main readers as well. I would guess I read between five to 10 blogs a day on [...]

I was surfing through LinkedIn the other day and saw this article mentioned in one of the groups I belong to. The author, Renee Lemley, talks about her trifecta of social media networking – Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter – and what she thinks people can get out of each venue. It’s an interesting take on the [...]

We’re one week into Barack Obama’s presidency and I’m realizing that his taking over for Bush has an interesting, perhaps even fundamental, parallel with the beginnings of Web 2.0. According to the Wikipedia entry on Web 2.0, Tim O’Reilly (who helped coin the phrase) was using the term in referring to: “the historical context of [...]