This post by Janice Fraser is attracting a lot of attention in the blogosphere. It almost takes you back to the early days - which for me means only ten years ago, for others it means a lot earlier than that. She writes:
Something is happening right now, and the developer community has an electric gleam in its eye. Curious, inventive people are making cool stuff again. There’s been a notable shift, and it’s incredibly exciting.
I found the link to that article via Dan Gillmore's piece for the FT Web 2.0? Try 3.0. where he says:
We are barely a decade and a half into the existence of the web, the network of networks intertwined around our ever-smaller planet. The elemental units haven’t changed much, but the web’s functions have evolved in a dramatic way.
After the agonies of the dot.com surge-and-crash it's starting to feel safe again to be excited about the future.
And maybe this time around we will be more sensible and understand that the economic power of the web, though enormous, is miniscule compared with its philosophical, political, and social energy.
