I so enjoy Tom’s interviewing style and PRESENCE with all of his guests. I’d also like to second the appreciation for Jane Clayson’s recent stint on the show: so deep and sensitive on many serious topics.

Today’s show is very “on point” for me. Thank you all for the outstanding work that you do.
GBW

There is no obvious way to preview my comments to check for spelling errors. typo’s, or other mistakes before submitting them, or to correct them afterwards, and there is no apparent way to embed typographical elements to bold or italicize text, for instance.

Back to the races.

Cheers,
Wen

I think before this thread become the feedback magnet you should make a few posts in the back end of the site dividing up feedback:

Site feedback
Radio show general feedback
Ideas for new shows

Imagine this thread in a year. That’s enough to get you to think ahead a bit on routing feedback into places that will be a bit more permanent.

Like so many tech articles posted since Tim O’Reilly coined the term in 2004, this one references “Web 2.0″ as if it were something tangible–or at least a concept with clear, concise definition. It is not. In 2006, Web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee sagely observed that “nobody knows what it means”:

http://tinyurl.com/y6ewzy

And now in 2008, the most honest thing we can say is that “Web 2.0″ means whatever the techno-marketeer (ab)using it wants it to mean. Otherwise, why would intelligent people like Isaac O’Bannon still be writing articles asking “What is Web 2.0?”:

http://tinyurl.com/5solok

And, why would McKinsey’s just-released best-of-breed report entitled “Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise” …

http://tinyurl.com/6sxls7

… include no attempt at defining the term other than to list the “Web 2.0 Tools” that comprise or enable it? And even there, the chief ingredient is identified only as “Web Services”, adding more mystery to the mix as one ethereal term is offered up to explain another.

As originated in an Onstartups.com website design posting that no longer exists…

http://tinyurl.com/57a2u4

… “Web 2.0″ is like pornography: Nobody has defined it, but you know it when you see it.

Bruce Arnold, Web Designer, Miami Florida
http://www.PervasivePersuasion.com

I called in on one show and stated that the Iraq war was about putting military bases near large oil fields. Both you and your learned guests said that I was being too cynical, that we, the US, were “spreading democracy” and “liberating the Iraqis”.

I think it would be healthy for On Point to evaluate what happened considering that you played a part in selling this war which has now resulted in millions of innocent deaths.

http://archives.onpointradio.org/archive.asp

Here’s a little peak behind the curtain at On Point: every morning at 7am we meet to go over the morning’s shows, and Tom sketches out the kinds of questions he’s going to ask listeners. We’ll start posting those questions on the show’s page, shortly after the morning meeting, and hopefully encourage all of you to start posting comments before we’re on the air. Then, who knows, maybe we’ll start using some of those comments in the show…. That’s the plan.