[WikiEN-l] Response to Nick Carr on Wikipedia and Web 2.0

Fri Oct 7 11:26:03 UTC 2005

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Tony Sidaway wrote:
> On 10/7/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>>But in fairness, look at what he's responding to. "Web 2.0" is a
>>Wired/Negroponte dot-com wank phrase.
>>
> 
> 
> Well I never read that tripe, either.
> 
> I like your idea of adopting the Economist house style, but a lot of kids
> are taught in schools to write unimaginably long, tedious essays on quite
> trivial subjects, so they have to learn how to trim out the waffle when they
> come to writing for real readers.
>

Hehe, that last bit describes the guy's blog entry perfectly. It's 36kB,
11 pages long.

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