Stop Web 2.0? Why?
If any of you people still believe there’s something special about this “Web 2.0” thing, then you’re screwed. It’s just a name. It’s just this moniker some smart guy gave to the consumer-driven, collaborative endeavors classified with folksonomy and what-have-you. Oh, and they probably made a killing publishing books about “Web 2.0,” too. Figures.
So when some other smart aleck comes up with a “Stop Web 2.0” campaign, my first reaction was “Why?” Why try to stop something that’s not really there at all? I mean, it’s just the evolution of the internet, for crying out loud.
And I wonder what these guys were smoking when they wrote their so-called manifesto for stopping Web 2.0. Check it out:
#1 – “The internet is dead.”
#2 – “We already have an internet.”
#3 – (Some blabber about technology and business)
Do you honestly expect us to believe a thing you say if you blatantly conflict with your own words? Right after your assertion that “the internet is dead” (#1), you claim we don’t need Web 2.0 because “we already have an internet” (#2).
Oh, so we need something that’s already dead, huh?
Stop Web 2.0? I say stop bickering and get a life.
I saw this on Digg today and thought it was relevant to this post: The Web 2.0 bullshitr: http://emptybottle.org/bullshit/
Quimby said this on August 23, 2006 2:40 am
Yeah! I’m totally with you: Stop the bickering and get a life. Everybody. Just forget this stupid Web 2.0 crap and let’s get on with the important stuff.
It won’t be long and I’m going to start deleting a whole lot of feeds again. It’s getting on my nerves big time.
Chris Ritke said this on September 2, 2006 6:42 am
Can a manifesto be lamer? Whoever came up with that manifesto must be high on dope.
Jill said this on September 4, 2006 9:48 am