Feld Thoughts: We Media vs. Web 2.0
Feld Thoughts: We Media vs. Web 2.0
We Media vs. Web 2.0There are two conferences going on today – We Media and Web 2.0. Both are sold out, have great speakers, and have generated lots of “pre-conference” buzz (whatever that means.)
They are radically difference conferences addressing the same thing from two totally different perspectives. The schedules and the agendas tell the complete story. We Media – all media, all day long – in New York. Web 2.0 – all tech, for a couple of days – in San Francisco.
Ten years later, the bifurcation on the Internet between tech and media seems as big as ever. I wonder which party is going to be more fun (actually, I don’t, but it was a good closing line.)
I remember an argument well back in the early days of the Internet circa 1996 with DoubleClick. Are we in the media business or the technology business? We were in both!!
I’d say We Media is a subset of Web 2.0 and if I could go to one show it would be Web 2.0 in SF! We all know Al Gore is going to claim he invented “We Media” just like he invented the Internet.
We Media is a result of Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is the revolution – oligopolies and bureaucrats beware! 
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