BBC Two announces "Digital Revolution" series

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• Open source? Hardly unless they plan to allow viewers to write and edit the actual programme content. With that amount of user input it's barely even worthy of the appellation Web 2.0. So dies another piece of IT jargon, twisted and abused by the popular media into a generic and vague buzzword to join its cousins 'virus', 'web', 'hacking' and 'iPod'. Posted by GK, UK
• I think this is a very relevant idea. 14 years ago I could hardly get anybody interested in the Internet, it was extremely niche, all monty python scripts on the early Wysiwyg browsers and little of relevance outside academia, but now the web has set my work free. I can work as an educational consultant, an area previously dominated by those with years of personal contacts to call on, cutting past all that to offer my work direct to customers. There was no way without the net that I could work in this field from a standing start, and it has allowed me to be a designer, speaker, inspiration, businessman and influential developer of resources, all from the same keyboard and mouse... In the same hour I can design adverts, post opinions, discuss ideas and manage my accounts...
  The world is changing... new skills and a new thinking style will power those in the know to ever greater achievements in diverse areas of work unimaginable to the previous generation... Posted by AJBooker, uk