THE NEW, THE BEST, AND THE WORST

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THE NEW, THE BEST,
AND THE WORST
January 2007
Collected by Pim Borman
SW Indiana PC Users Group, Inc.
Web 2.0 Revisited.
As you must have heard by now, TIME
Magazine has pronounced YOU the person
of the year 2006. Before you grin proudly at
yourself in the Mylar mirror on the cover of
the end-year issue, you may contemplate
some of the company you are keeping: Hitler,
Stalin (twice), Khrushchev, and Nixon
(and also, incidentally, George W. Bush
[twice]). In other words, being chosen is
based on your impact on world affairs, not
necessarily approval. TIME has chosen
YOU because of the influence that usergenerated
content on the Web is having on
art, politics and commerce through Weblogs,
YouTube movie uploads, MySpace,
Second Life, and such other instant gigadevelopments.
One can argue the merits of
all these individual contributions, but there
is no question that they have been influential
in some instances.
Unfortunately, the editors refer to all this
hullabaloo as Web 2.0, confusing some of
its manifestations with the underlying server
technology. As I mentioned in my November,
2006, column, Web 2.0 is a protocol
that makes it possible to establish a continuous…