Some may be suffering fatigue or irritation with the term, or just be plain bored by it, (eg, here, here, here), but let's not get caught up in a cycle of weary, ironic sighings. When Web 2.0, the term, was first used is of historical interest, but what matters for many an end-user is that being online is much more interesting and
useful now than it was even just a short while ago. If historians and scholars of the net can think of a
term better than 'Web 2.0' to describe this phenomenon of
growing inter-connectedness and web-as-platform, then all well and good. In the
term, there's nothing; in the experience, there's a lot. Hype is unnecessary and unhelpful: the experience speaks for itself
(and, of course, leaves much to be desired).
Besides, Web 2.0 is so last year. Now we're either on Web 3.0 or about to be.
(Footnote: great to see The Guardian mark the tenth anniversary of the internet as a mass phenomenon with a leader.)
