Monday, October 3, 2005
Welcome to the Jungle, Indeed
Steven Johnson has jumped on the Web 2.0 cluetrain along with a lot of other people. He uses a great metaphor to discuss web 2.0, that of a rain forest versus a desert. I think his metaphor is appropriate for more reasons than he realizes, though, namely that this jungle, built on vast quantities of data, has no inherent mechanism for trust. In other words, in just the same way that Web 2.0 makes room for a lot of niche activities, it also makes more room for predators.
