Moving on up to the 2.0 side, or what I’m wanting to do here.

Right now my Firefox toolbar is taking up half my screen real estate , my Twirl blinks every two minutes, I’m also both Dug and del.icio.us. I occasionally Stumble if I’m not careful, and sometimes I just gotta take a Wizz. I listen to too many Podcasts, prune my ID3 tags to a degree anyone with OCD would appreciate,  Yes, obviously I have moved on up to Web 2.0. Trouble is I still have very little idea what the heck that means…(Excerpt from what was originally going to be my first post.)

I was asked by someone, who seems a bit particular about why someone chooses the Blog title they do, what mine meant. I guess she thought perhaps that there was a “Going 1.0,” but the reference is more like Going Internet 2.0. I’ve been using the Internet regularly since the early to mid 90s, but only recently started using it to reach out to the randomness of the social networking scene. Going 2.0 was a title to journal that process, but has so far just been a forum for what ever clarity I can manage in a few paragraphs. In reality, the title was what came to mind in a pinch.

I had wanted to start a space to practice finding a writing voice. I feel I converse well with people, but have trouble putting thoughts down in a well organized, written fashion. This blog was designed to help me work that out while still attempting to be insightful, charming, witty, and entertaining. I originally thought I could focus the writing on my travels through the myriad of internet 2.0 apps, but in reality, just the exposure to all these new inputs has given me so many new areas of interest, that I haven’t stopped to contemplate what place these applications have actually had.

The byline is a bit less esoteric. “The Early Majority is Here,” refers to the Everett Rogers Diffusion of Innovations theory. My mere presence in the Web 2.0 space is a canary in the coal mine, and that the Early Majority (i.e. main-stream) is imminently right behind me. I have an early adopter attitude with an early majority pocket book. So when I show up at the party, it usually isn’t long before everyone else starts to trickle in. (Twitter, you better settle those scaling problems, ya know what I’m sayin’?

I suppose I didn’t fully realize to what degree these social applications were going to influence me. In the end what it has done has given me the giddiness of my early experiences of the Internet, and has reinvigorated me to once again begin exploring its endless corridors. This time, with a bit more perspective, a bit more maturity, and a whee bit of healthy skepticism.

Humanity has never had this opportunity for open communication like this before, and the path this puts us on gives me an excited optimism I don’t recall having since my childhood. (O.K. this is not flying cars, alien contact,  and time travel, but is still pretty darn cool.) So please check back here to see how it’s going, and please share with me your own experiences!