Fred Wilson has a wonderful post on what he is calling Blogging 2.0, which is the current blogging environment and it's previous incarnation (blogging 1.0) in such vehicles as Tripod, GeoCities, and About.com. I've been wondering when someone was going to bring this up. He points out some major differences including RSS, permalinks, contextual ad networks, and fundamentally the idea that a post is a unique piece of content. I would add archiving and the ability to create and assign categories (at least in MT) to his permalink comment, also commenting functionality. Underlying this is a dramatic shift in content management and fee scales, bandwidth costs etc which Seth Godin outlines in his great post which adds to the excitement.
Seth Godin's post , '"Why this "Internet thing" is just starting" adds to the feeling of excitement and new opportunity. He points out that it has only been 10 years. Right now I'm consulting at iVillage a company that just celebrated it's 10 year anniversary and marked it by ringing the bell at the NYSE and launching a redesign that incorporates Flash on its homepage. I've been feeling perky lately about all of this in fact my first post on this blog two months ago was about that.
Maybe with all of this good feeling and excitement Bo Peabody could resurrect the very funny business plan generator that once was on Tripod.
