On Web 2 and CC
I haven't yet read the Web 2.0 Storytelling chapter on DS106 - I've skimmed through it and it looks pretty interesting -I think it's going to go on my spring break reading list (so sometime in March). I did however (quickly) go over the O'Reily " what is Web 2.0 " and the educause 7 things of Creative Commons (which admittedly I have read before but not in a long time). My main thought about Web 2.0 is that we ought to not be calling it "Web 2.0" but rather just call it "the web." Perhaps back in the early to mid 2000s when this stuff was new it was useful to differentiate how the "old' web was different from the "new" web. The new web however has been with us for quite some time now, so it's no longer new. As a matter of fact any newness is iterative, a "Web 2.0.010" if you will. We don't pay attention to iterations (no matter how amazing they are) we just use them - so why fixate on the "...