The future is now

....Big sigh....  All done.  All my papers are in.  All my work is complete.  I could walk away right now and disconnect from this class and from web 2.0.  But Bryan, that means no Facebook, no blogs, no Diigo.  Most of all, that means no exploring.  Web 2.0 is fun!  I want to explore.  I want to post on my blog and read other blogs.  I enjoy web 2.0.

Let's crowdsource it:
Right now there are 70 million Youtube videos.
Right now there are 130 million blogs.
Right now Twitter handles over 400 million tweets per day (http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/6/3069424/twitter-400-million-total-daily-tweets)

The verdict is in: Web 2.0 is fun.  People, including myself, love it. 

Speaking of crowdsourcing, how interesting is Peer2peer University?  What a good idea to have people who are experts and wanting to contribute to the internet in a tangible way contribute to enriching people's lives.  My only qualm is that they don't have a way to critique courses.  If there was a way to promote the better courses and suggest improvements for the other courses, it would be a very good thing.  I definitely see a future for sites like this, though.