DISQUS

Beautiful comments on Mr. Carr's complaints of Web 2.0 numbskulls. I am really puzzled by why he would post this argument considering that in every field of new knowledge, there are many ideas that turn out be wrong but it is the constant refinement of these ideas that allows us to get closer to the truth - Popper's concept of the working hypothesis.

I also wrote a response to Mr. Carr and even got a mention on his posting under the Update section. But Mr. Carr chose to sidestep my argument that his thesis is fundamentally flawed because it is essentially a teleological argument. http://eclecticbill.blogspot.com/2006/04/wisdom-of-numbskulls.html

When I asked my students why they overwhelmingly preferred FaceBook over MySpace, the consensus was that FaceBook just has a cleaner look and is easier to navigate. Having looked at both, I tend to agree. Microsoft should take a long, hard look at how 37Signals designs a website. There is a lot to be said for a user-interface that gets out of the user\'s way when they are trying to accomplish a task.

By the way: Read your book last night in my local coffeehouse and loved it. Passed it onto our PR teacher. Maybe this will corrupt him.