Do We Need Professionalism In Media?
Do we need professional journalists, editors, and publishers to help filter the sea of information and help keep us informed — do they have a place in Media 2.0? Most Web 2.0 advocates would argue, NO...
View Article2.0 Needs to Help Me FIGURE OUT What I Want
Ever since I began my “2.0″ indoctrination, I’ve had this nagging feeling that something wasn’t right — I knew it had to do with the problem of too much choice and with the unclear returns on the...
View ArticleAOL/Netscape’s Big Web 2.0 Test
On the face of it, the news that AOL/Netscape is launching a Digg killer suggests that if Digg, Reddit, and other imitators had a chance to sell, they should have taken it. It also suggests that Web...
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A Digg On Digg Has Become Meaningless
As Digg increasingly confronts the spectre of spam and gaming of the system (Tony Hung has the latest round), Kevin Rose and Co. have been forced to add increasing complexity to the Digg algorithm, to...
View ArticleCumulative Advantage Explains Web 2.0, MySpace, The A-List, TechCrunch, Digg,...
Just when you thought you understood Web 2.0, along comes a theory so disruptive it razes everything in its path. The theory of cumulative advantage suggests that every successful Web 2.0 site — and...
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How Will Twitter Affect Search?
Blogging and search have been good to each other overall. Bloggers have cranked out millions of links, which drive search algorithms, and in turn search has rewarded bloggers by ranking their content...
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