Web 2.0

There’s has been a lot of chatter on the internets about Web 2.0, specifically as a result of the Web 2.0 conference which concludes today in San Francisco. I've been picking up threads about it from the sources I tap into, like Dave Winer and his extended network. And I confess that the profusion of new, or more accurately, repackaged ideas are things I've thought about, too, for over the past 15 years.
I think that what's missing -- as has always been missing -- is an appreciation for the nature of work and play, and the intellectual/cross-connect between these two issues. Everything seems to funnel into process and product and markets without first funneling into a consideration of what people put their hands on things to either absorb or create digital artifacts of their thought processes and their conversations. Maybe at a deep, academic level some people deal in ontologies and epistemologies, but once it reaches the level of public discussion level, the dots aren't connected. And that's what this praxis is about.