Posts Tagged with ‘Drama-2.0’

Blogging is at a turning point. There seem to be three different types of bloggers: those who use it as an online diary, those who view themselves as journalists, and those who view themselves as journalists without all the trappings that traditional media types are bound by.
My personal blog is firmly in the first segment, but I'd probably put myself in the last category to an extent in my "work" writing. I started out as a journalism major, but couldn't [...]

Odds are that any additional articles I write today will be site reviews, because today is my least favorite day of the year as a tech blogger. Beyond my usual schedule of getting Rick rolled at least once a day by someone, I am now stuck with sifting through my feeds trying to determine what's actual news and what's an April Fool's Day prank.
Of course, since this has become a tech blogosophere tradition, many blogs are determined to get out [...]

There's been a story today that virtually every blog has been tiptoeing around but not addressing, except for Drama 2.0, but we know how much he likes to rub our noses in any possible popping of the bubble. The story, as Reuters tells it, is that venture capital into Web 2.0 start-ups is slowing down.
In the Dow Jones VentureSource report cited, they point out that VC for Web 2.0 companies only grew by 25% in 2007, from 143 to 178 [...]

My favorite Web 2.0 pundit, Drama 2.0 , wrote a guest article for Mashable that's generated an interesting debate about the Web 2.0 audience. In the article, Drama 2.0 asserts that Data Portability is all about the techies. While eventually, it may end up being used by the unwashed masses, the only people clamoring for the ability to port all their data from one app to another are people who are power-users of any app to begin with. In other [...]