"Many members of the Web 2.0 generation of internet companies have so far produced little in the way of revenue, despite bringing about some significant changes in online behaviour, according to some of the entrepreneurs and financiers behind the movement

Contra Keen and David Leigh, "It’s not that web culture contests authority or authoritativeness as such, rather it contests the appeal to, or argument by, authority…"

Joanna Geary has an interesting back and forth with Donnacha DeLong about "web 2.0". He famously said it’s rubbish; she says it’s something professional journalists "need to find a way to use to our advantage".

Some examples of video and data use at US newspaper sites, presented by Jim Brady of washingtonpost.com and Jennifer Carroll of Gannett presented at APME.

"It’s up to you, Journalist – only you can change the public perception of journalism and its importance. There is little of what labour unions can do to increase the demand for journalism, but there are myriad opportunities for making journalistic va

Suw Charman and Keving Anderson challenge Donnacha DeLong’s piece "WEB 2.0 IS RUBBISH" in the NUJ magazine The Journalist.

"[Web 2.0 is] not about journalism. It is about how technology is helping people meet, converse and do commerce, in the widest possible sense of that word."

Donnacha DeLong republishes the article from The Journalist that has caused a stink in the UK jounro-blogosphere, and contributed to Roy Greenslade quitting the NUJ.

"I was stunned by the scaremongering spread looking forward to next month’s report by the union’s Commission on Multi-Media Working. Particularly shocking was the reactionary, badly-argued piece headlined ‘Web 2.0 is rubbish’."

Simon Waldman: "I think the real shift here is not about blogging versus journalism - but sheer volume of news sources available to us - and therefore the need for new tools to that improve the way that people find and engage with news and information…"

Mark Potts: "If newspaper Web sites are going to successfully bail out their print counterparts, they’ve got to act like … eb sites. Unfortunately, a recent report indicates that most newspaper Web sites are still stuck firmly in the last century … "

Publish2 is a social network and 2.0 platform for journalists (and independent “news bloggers,” “citizen” journalists, student journalists, i.e. ALL journalists, BROADLY defined), which aims to put journalists at the center of news aggregation on

Martin Belham wraps up his series of newspaper web site reviews with a summary post: "There is a lot of evidence around the newspaper sites that they are beginning to really "get" some new media and Web 2.0 concepts."