Tom Raftery has become a celebrity for his reporting of the [email protected] Web 2.0 Incident that the blogosphere has been buzzing about since last Friday, and that got him interviewed by the New York Times: Squabble Over Name Ruffles a Web Utopia. He is also the producer of the podcast channel PodLeaders. I met Tom at Les Blogs 2.0 and most recently at the Web 2.0 Irish Conference.
We talked about recording a podcast on both occasions, and we are recording it this Tuesday. Given the context, not too sure who is going to interview whom… In any case, Tom has published a post where you can leave questions you would like us to address.
My latest update on this offers an O'Reilly-style way of handling the trademark issue, one which I'm surprised that they didn't arrive at themselves... O'Reilly, Get Real
Posted by: Liam @ Web 2.5 Blog | May 29, 2006 at 12:48 PM
This is a clash between the geeks and the marketing suits. The suits are clowning around inventing jargon while the geeks are busy inventing technology, the geeks ignore the suits as long as they stay out of the way. When the suits start asserting ownership of names of technologies they barely understand and get in the way -- this touches a raw nerve.
Posted by: sr | May 29, 2006 at 05:31 PM