Peter, I agree - having been involved for many years in software development project management, from a software technology point of view very little has changed, so if you said to a developer "we are going to utilise web 2.0frameworks in our next project" s/he would look at you as if you were some sort of nutter. Developers have a unique way of totally dismissing anyone they regard as being not part of the tribe. Get the product and marketing people in the room though and you would find a completely different view point, obviously everything NOW has to be web 2.0. I'm formulating ideas around access; cheap powerful computers / fast, multi access internet connections, domestication of the PC, particularly in the private space / bedroom culture of young people which encourages the use of communities of interest sites. What do you think a young persons myspace page would look like if a parent was looking over his / her shoulder (regulation) when they were crafting their home page? Martin. On 4/20/07, Peter Timusk <ptimusk@sympatico.ca> wrote:
A search on Lexis might be more valuable in terms of legal scholarship.
When judges start saying web 2.0 you know something is happening.
I can't access Lexis at the moment but I used to enjoy free access as a student.
I am very sceptical about this term right now as the comp sci conference press does not impress on the use of this term.
Internet evangelists use the term like a family member who does this work in the corporate world.
But I will search that press now as Mr Wellman suggests and see what I can find to back myself up.
Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2007). just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.
On 19-Apr-07, at 5:40 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
One brute force approach which wouldn't take long is to a successive Google search on "1990" and "web 2.0"; "1991" and "web 2.0" etc.
You'll get some noise and some nuggests, I reckon. Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________
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