Web 2.0 may finally be the democratic revolution that the World Wide Web originally claimed to be, even if it is still commercial, because users are interacting with and co-creating content, and there are so many groups in cyberspace making communities that share information for free, just because.
I’m not anti-commerce. I like to shop, but I don’t want an entirely pre-manufactured existence. Web 2.0 merges my love of the handmade, the personal, creation in general, with technology—a marriage I never thought would happen. I used to think quite the opposite—that technology could never be personal. That it had no heart.
From feeds with news bytes to recommendations about books (products, sites, etc.) that I may never have found on my own, if I can have my world filtered to my liking so I don’t have to sift through the global information overload to find what I want (or just give up entirely), then so much the better.
