Living in the midwest spares me from rubbing shoulders every day with the buzzword crazies on the coasts. But still, I like to keep tabs on what’s new: I give thanks to the net for that.

Tim O’Reilly has a good summary article on the latest buzzphrase: Web 2.0. Ten years after I got my first email account and started using Netscape to surf the infant web, it’s of historical interest to me to watch folks examining the industry (and themselves) and drawing out the threads.