Today's Guardian colour magazine, Weekend, has devoted 15 pages to Web 2.0 with a lead feature by award-winning novelist John Lanchester and interviews with many of the people behind companies such as Blogger, Digg, Flickr and Wikipedia. There are also audio extracts from some of the interviews.
Johnny Baker says it's a fantastic feature "though you might have chosen a few others to add to the list" of interviewees. (Can't argue with that.)
Drew B says it's good and bad. "Bad? Articles like this have been done before and better by other publications like the Business Week's Valley Boys article in August, this one from the FT in September, and too many to remember imho."
Hm, well, we've done articles on this stuff before, and it's almost a year since I wrote a Technology section cover story on Web 2.0, One foot in the future (Thursday November 17, 2005). We also interviewed people like Ev Williams (Thursday January 31, 2002) and Stewart Butterfield (Thursday March 31, 2005) even before that. We did Wikipedia in January 2003.
Of course, if the feature had been in Business Week, it would have attracted a lot more comment in the blogosphere.....
