I hear this argument all the time, and often by people who should know better and whose memory is playing tricks on them. Nothing changed in the way we used the web. We have always been producing content like crazy since the time of the BBS. Personal pages, discussion groups, manifests, political oriented websites, blogs (only they weren't called blogs), wikis (only they weren't called wikis). That and a lot more, have always been produced by all kinds of people and the biggest group has always been those with the least technological inclination and less talent.
Web 2.0 meanwhile is simply a buzzword with unclear origins and even less clear definition, created to satisfy our pop culture need to sustain the illusion their asinine existence has a real meaning. Web 2.0 is nothing. Means nothing and amounts to nothing we haven't been doing for the past 30 years.
Clearly it hasn't been so, since the web content always grew more on the backs of the folks at home than it has on corporations doing websites for the folks at home.Originally Posted by MK27
In any case what I want? I want people stop saying Web 2.0, for a start. How about that?
Next, I would hope someone realized we have been driving this road on cars without safety belts, defective breaks and no speed limit. That we are constructing a web that is becoming increasingly more insecure, increasingly more complex, that is becoming more violent, that is becoming a safe haven for illegal activities, and yet we insist on having it support most of our lives, our relationships and businesses. And we have been doing that at an increasingly faster and uncontrollable speed(*). In a way the web is becoming just like real life, you can say that. But you did ask me what I wanted, so there you have it.
And for that, I would want for the technology to evolve. For the real Web 2.0 to emerge with something better than the very old TCP/Insecure Protocol and with something more appropriate than the old HTML which served us so well in the past, but which client-side limitations are today too apparent. Limitations that, by the way, have been feeding the corporations you are so quick to include in your already known leftie vitriol.
(*) an example being this amazing new concept of cloud networks for businesses. Thankfully, most of the people in charge on many of these businesses is a lot smarter than the dimwits having girly fits every time someone shouts Web 2.0. They just don't fall for buzzwords so easily. And Cloud Networks means they lose control of their databases security, integrity and update cycles. And as such many have been saying no thank you.