2.0 and the price of free

[Philip Davis <pmd8@cornell.edu>]

Two very interesting and related posts on the Scholarly Kitchen 
today.

David Crotty does a humorous critique of Web 2.0 business models 
(and those that promote them), suggesting that they are based 
largely on empty hype and used primarily as advertisement to sell 
non-2.0 garbage like books about how to make money using 2.0.

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/07/02/successful-web-2-0-business-models/

Kent Anderson covers Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker article, an 
essay by Michael Nielsen on the disruption of scientific 
publishing, and a commentary on Cris Anderson's forthcoming book, 
"Free: The Future of a Radical Price".

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/07/02/gladwell-nielsen-fixed-costs-of-fixed-ideas/

--Phil Davis