Very few users of YouTube actually upload something and this is news? Puh-lease.

So the joy of the participatory web is its capacity to let 99.8% of participants be passive. Great.

Again, this is news why?

I think if you try fisking your previous response you will obtain your intended satisfactory answer.

I just don't understand your constant beating down of the web 2.0 thing, Alan. It was idiotic to actually label the evolution of online services with a version number ot begin with. The sooner people stop talking about it, the sooner we can get back to looking at porn and playing games online.

You seem to be the only one who doesn't get it - especially as there has been no evolution just a branding of the evolution for purposes of profit. I have to face the branding of this sort of nonsense as a procurer so do not have an passing experience of it. You may want to learn more here.

Oh, I get it, Alan. Marketing wonks have invented the term to package what the web was supposed to be five years ago to know-nothing schlubs.

How can there be a "branding of the evolution" if there is no evolution to brand?

BINGO! The thing is what it is - which includes many faults and inherently damaging characteristics - but unlike any other technology or commodity there is no actual evaluation of actual performance. One massive and massively profitable assumption tied up with a great big branding bow. Many great things mixed up with many bad things and a huge huge amount of inefficiencies - but only mention the great things.

Do you know that my kids have never sat in a class room with a video link watching and being watched by kids in Asian sitting in a class room! Amazing. Also amazing in the suggestion that this in any way is something that adds anything to anything...yet there it is nightly as an ad. That is why I only believe the Geico gecko.

So we can go back to surfing for porn when?

That's what draws me to work, Hans .. :-D

Dare I wade in with a long winded and probably poorly spell checked response? Naw, I'll just say Alan is completely right.. and I'm with the boys wanting more free pr0n.

Pr0n is fleeting and embarrassing. Sports scores and video highlights are eternal and sublime.

Don't forget the free funny videos put onine by 0.000016% of the population on youtube! Nothing beats a guy dressed as darth vader running a grocery store!

i have no idea what fisking is but it sounds incredibly dirty. yuck.

I thought "fisking your own comment" was a pretty good call out for web 2.0.

Is this suppose to be an intellectual conversation? I fail to see the point in this ranting...oh duh, it is to get people to come read what you say so they can click on your google adsense links and make you lot's [Ed.: <i>sic</i> or <i>hic</i>?] of money.

In my opinion, Web 2.0 is just a name given to something that is happening anyway. Everything evolves and humans have to label it in order to make it fit their purpose.

Then you won't mind me obfuscating the link to your lonely corner of the information superhighway.

We decided yesterday to rename the Web the old Microsoft style, so there'll be no consumer confusing. It's now "Web 2007" (or "Web 2.007" if you prefer that way). Unfortunately, that means we have Web ME and Web XP comining up next...

I am going rename myself Al2007.

Which, fortunately or unfortunately, looks something like (A)rtifical (I)ntelligence 2007. And of course, everyone will have to upgrade next year or their support will be dropped.

I have this feeling that I am incompatable already.

Is this or is this not an intellectual conversation? I can't tell!?!?!