Quick hit: for the folks who are looking for PDFs of the presentation I made here at WAM!, here's links to the files for yas:

• Empowering online communities (full color), 2.3MB
• Empowering online communities (printable black-n-white), 1.1MB

Also, here's the link to the resource list: http://del.icio.us/tag/wamweb2.0

Well, well, well… it's all the rage for these 15 seconds, but Time has basically crowned "Web 2.0" the official whiz-bang-iess thing out there right now. It's all about you and me, and what we do with ourselves online these days. I read a really great post over at Read/Write Web dissecting what Time got right, and what they got terribly wrong… man, this is such a strange media moment.

Brian Williams, the darling of NBC, had this to say:

We work every bit as hard as our television-news forebears did at gathering, writing and presenting the day's news but to a smaller audience, from which many have been lured away by a dazzling array of choices and the chance to make their own news.

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