Web 2.0; Kumbayah, not
I finally got around to reading this piece by Nick Carr: spot on. I've been somewhat skeptical of the hype surrounding knowledge aggregation. Oh, I think knowledge is a good thing, I just don't know if it will follow a higher path on the Web.
I linked to a post about this
site for physicists as being an example of how Web technologies will further human knowledge. But it will operate largely outside the Jeff Jarvis concept of the blogoshere.
Human nature what it is, I'm lost as to how the long tail of individualization will bring an epiphany. I think the fragmented desires will be overcome by greater economic forces.