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08 Aug 2006

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/08/web-20-its-the-same-old-media/

Over at Techcrunch, Michael Arrington has posted a 24-minute documentary about Web 2.0. If you’re unsure about what the read-write web is or are new to the whole community, this may be an interesting watch; otherwise it’s kind of banal. Nobody seems to want to stick their neck out and say something contentious. One quotable soundbite, [...]

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