web 2.0 special | Guardian Unlimited

Weekend Magazine web 2.0 special | Weekend | Guardian Unlimited

Loved this article in the weekend guardian magazine. It describes the generic Web2.0 developments quite succinctly and has voxpops from the creators of: wikipedia, blogger/odeo, wordpress, bebo, writely, digg, craigslist, last.fm, del.icio.us, feedburner, netvibes, technorati, and flickr. You’ll be getting homework if you didn’t know all those already.
The conclusion makes for sobering thinking…

Sit someone at a computer screen and let it sink in that they are fully, definitively alone; then watch what happens. They will reach out for other people; but only part of the way. They will have “friends”, which are not the same thing as friends, and a lively online life, which is not the same thing as a social life; they will feel more connected, but they will be just as alone. Everybody sitting at a computer screen is alone.

I discovered the article via good old-fashioned Paper1.0 technology, but here it is for online consumption.

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06.11.06 / 9am
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