For MSM, Web 2.0 No Longer Icky, Thanks To Wiki
February 24, 2007 at 9:23 pm
I’ve been arguing for a while that as much as the crusty, snooty palace guards of traditional mainstream media like to come off as being Web 2.0 skeptics, even opponents, they secretly celebrate its prominence, if for no other reason than it gives them something new to report on, let alone scoff.
Consider the Washington Post.
Last weekend it was the front-page Saturday screamer about Facebook boosting Barack Obama.
This weekend, more evidence. Courtesy Wikipedia.
Saturday’s op-ed page features Cass Sunstein’s piece, “A Brave New Wikiworld.”
Sunday’s Outlook section sports Timothy Noah, “I’m Being Wiki-Whacked.”
Independently, both are solid pieces about Wikipedia. Taken together, they show that Web 2.0 continues to give MSM something to talk about, perhaps even to be puzzled about. If content is king, Web 2.0 now rules the land.
