Scripting News: Like a BloggerCon
“Later this week Google will have their invite-only Zeitgeist conference. It’s as closed as a conference can be. And this is the company we lifted on our shoulders and held up as a shining example of the web at its best. We were wrong to do that, but forgive us for having hope. At some core level Google did understand the web, but there was also a lot about Google that was against the web, and now that’s most of what they are.”

Ahh, classic Dave Winer rant – so true, so true. Was worried for a moment that Dave was drinking the silicon valley web2.0 kool aid – but then he rants the web way. The web way is recognizing that the world is larger than your little site, your little organization, your needs and acting accordingly. Acting like you live in a world that’s larger than yourself and your little ecosystem (sounds obvious, but it’s difficult).
It’s creating common infrastructure – and open field for sharing, competition and conversations.

This is what’s working at the core infrastructure level of the internet, it’s whats working in terms of “the world wide web” and it’s whats working in the blogosphere.

And this is nowhere in the definitions of a meme that someone calls web2.0 (btw, i here by pledge never to use that word again on this blog).