Jackie Danicki

Dave Winer on Web 2.0 and bubbles:

I’ve heard it said many times that the march of progress means that business people take over from the pioneers, but I’ve observed the opposite. When the boom is finished, the technology will still be here, and while progress may have suffered during the euphoria (the money is rarely used to fund new ideas), the ball never really stops rolling while everyone is focused on the money-obsessed. When the boom is over, we’ll still be here, pushing new ideas forward.

I’ve stopped reading a lot of Web 2.0-related stuff, because now a lot of the wrong people are producing it, and I really am not interested in what they have to say about it. By “the wrong people,” I mean people who were pooh-poohing the importance and impact of social media as recently as one year ago, and now think they’ve got it all figured out. I know someone personally who was still telling me a year ago that all this stuff was irrelevant, and who is now billing himself in his professional bio as a “social media evangelist”. He still doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and there are a lot of people like him who are spouting a lot of rubbish. Those people really don’t matter, and if that sounds cruel, so be it. I’m glad people like Dave - with whom I disagree as much as I agree - are still around and reminding us who does matter.

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