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I'm working doctorate education, and my research focuses potential uses digital communication media (online discussions, blogs, wikis, etc.) teaching writing particular, am interested teachers English language arts, humanities, social studies might incorporate digital interactive writing into writing process, such online discussions might serve sort pre-writing activity essays, stories, other written compositions help students develop and articulate their ideas example, students might use discussion forums discuss debatable issues preparation persuasive essays same topics (which could potentially published blogs wikis) they might use blog post seed essay, inviting comments other students help them develop their ideas they might begin develop story idea through online chat which they role-play characters dialogue they might use instant messaging brainstorm subtopics class wiki involving collaborative research Has anyone used Web 2.0 media way their students If so, I'd very interested hear some details If not, do you think such approach Many thanks advance (For more topic, invite you check out my blog, Authorship 2.0.)

Stefan Pfeiffer, IBM Lotus

Social-networking companies such as MySpace and Facebook have loyal fan bases, but they're not exactly minting money. MySpace's projected $600 million revenue in 2008 falls far short of parent News Corp.'s (NWS, Fortune 500) billion-dollar sales target for the site. Messaging service Twitter has no business model. Video-sharing site YouTube was the only big sale; Google paid $1.65 billion for it two years ago but still hasn't figured out how to make much money off it.

The air seems to be coming out of the Web 2.0 bubble, squeezed by the economic downturn and the absence of many solid short-term business plans. Dire market conditions have forced virtually all social-networking firms to scale back. In October, the third most popular social-networking site, Hi5, announced that it would cut between 10 and 15 percent of its staff. And in November, the business-focused networking sites LinkedIn and Jive said that they would slash their workforces by 10 and 40 percent, respectively.

For a lot of people, the term "Web 2.0," ceased to mean anything real a long a time ago. For some, it never really meant anything to begin with it. As someone who writes about the so-called second version of the web for a living, I think I've held onto the Web 2.0 term as long as I could. But today, "Web 2.0″ has officially jumped the shark for me. That doesn't mean I'll stop using it - as a blanket term to describe the industry that I write about it can be helpful - but I have to admit that it has now become somewhat of a parody.

The recent and dramatic growth of Web 2.0 and social software fundamentally changes the way that organizations must interact with information, and with those who produce, analyze, and consume that information. Government is no exception. The landscape of wikis, blogs, video sharing, and other social media has evolved and grown so rapidly that government policy has not kept up. The power of Web 2.0 and social software, if properly managed, can have a tremendously positive effect on the way the government interacts with the public, interacts with its employees, and conducts its own business. 

The series aimed to tie together 3 big trends, all based around structured data: 1) the still nascent "Web 3.0" concept, 2) the relatively new kid on the structured Web block, Linked Data, and 3) the long-running saga that is the Semantic Web. Greg's series is probably the best explanation I've read all year about the way these trends are converging.

Keynote von Dr. Ulrich Kampffmeyer auf dem SAPERIONcongress 2007, Berlin, am 19.06.2007. Präsentation auf Slideshare