My Take on the Whole O’Reilly "Web 2.0" Thing

If the image above is too obscure, see these blog entries by:

• Rob Hyndman
• Mathew Ingram
• Paul Kedrosky
• Rex Hammock
• Shel Israel
• Rick Segal has two articles: this one and this one
• John Battelle’s defense of O’Reilly
• The first official response from O’Reilly
• The follow-up official response from O’Reilly, in which they say that the mark applies only to live events and conferences (meaning that Mesh somehow escaped their radar)
• and of course, the guy who got served the cease-and-desist order: Tom Raftery

For reference, here’s Tim O’Reilly’s essay from last year, What is Web 2.0?. Note that nowhere in this essay does it say “And it’s my buzzword! Miiiiiine!“