DISQUS

bob ashley I agree with Taylor. Gov2.0 has gained significant truck, enjoying widespread uptake, and appears to telegraph a distinct semantic field. I think we need to watch our own lust for the new like we would an untrustworthy dog. If all we're going to do is substitute one buzz phrase for another, we'll tire of that soon enough too, no matter what. In any case, this sort of craving to control the lexicon is completely beyond anyone's control, always has been. Nobody in the times of Middle English said, "You know what? Calling the flesh of fruit "meat" is really dumb. We oughta stop it!" It dies of its own accord.

Funny, no one says, "Aren't you sick of the metaphors that says the sun "rises" and "sets". The sun does nothing of the kind, yet it sticks. These things have settled into our consciousness as literal, not figurative.

I neither like nor dislike the term gov2.0. People in our communicative community seems to share a good deal about what that phrase means, so it's still useful. If all the quest is about is the new kewl, then we're just fad chasers anyhoo. "Quantum" is certainly kewl, but like a new tattoo. The shine would fade in a week because it has absolutely no semantic relation to the web, nor does it communicate the notion of incremental advancement the way 2.0 does.

My vote is to let gov2.0 die a natural death.

bob

Rick Their Alexa ranking is 1256 average.
Page views per user are 18.

So it seems to work for them.

Wouldn't you call Microsofts home page an intro page?

Good blog btw - click, click, click lol

Thanks Mark.

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins True - not many. I probably wouldn't suggest it for an advertising client of mine, unless it was a page designed to intro and then capture user information.

You still see these in a lot of consultancy and design firm pages, though.

Taylor So I actually took the time to click on an ad that might be relevant. I chose the Userplane ad.

They have an intro-page! Wow, I didn't think anyone did these anymore. I can't believe they're paying for advertising to take people to an intro-page. Who's running the show over there?!?

http://www.userplane.com/?utm_source=mashable&a...