Thursday Morning Bits

PaidContent is following Web 2.0 from afar with a list of links. TechCrunch has a list of companies who have presented so far.

Speaking of PaidContent, they have the scoop on Weblogs Inc getting bought by AOL! Congrats to Jason Calacanis and the Weblogs Inc team! I think it’s awesome news. They have built an online media empire and are a template that hordes of others are following.

Pictures from We Media and updates on its blog.

It was great to read We Media Versus Web 2.0 to help confirm my own thoughts as to the interplay between these two conferences: We’re all trying to come at the same problem, though with two very different world views. What the East Coast media-centric world called “We Media” or “Citizen Journalism” is what the West Coast-Silicon Valley crowd called “Web 2.0”. It is content versus application/platform. I would replace “versus” with “and”.

Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo! asks what would it it take to make it easier to follow online conversations.

Shelley Powers: Sleeping around Web 2.0 Style.

Speaking of Shelley, she is revisiting her Web 1.0 past in “The time is now… 1997”. Definitely will be fun. I need to upload some of the older versions of my personal site for laughs, giggles, and reflection. The jump from 1996 to 1998 – where I started a blog and became ummm – boring – is rather amazing.