Miscellany and stuff (or, 2 point 'all'!)

There is an interesting new book by David Weinberger called Everything is Miscellaneous , reviewed by Karen Schneider at ALATechSource and by Peter Morville. Weinberger was one of the authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, and this new offering is yet another to be added to 'the 2.0 Reading List' along with The Long Tail by Chris Anderson and The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki. The latter come at their topic from a business perspective. The new "Miscellaneous" book moves the discussion closer to issues librarians are concerned about -- like classification. Schneider calls it "dangerous," but important -- clarifying in sum that "the danger comes if we don't listen."

A friend librarian commented on a previous post that he still doesn't know/understand what "2.0" means. Another brief, conceptual definition which makes a lot of sense to me:
Web 1.0 = Read Only (as in Read Only Memory or ROM)
Web 2.0 = the Read/Write Web (in which 'ordinary' users contribute or upload their own content as in blogs, wikis, TouTube and Flickr)

People have started talking about Web 3.0 (!...Wikipedia entry here; Tim Berners-Lee drops the 3.0-bomb and shrugs at 2.0 terminology here; Its relation to Service Oriented Architecture(SEO) is discussed here, and others say it will be the "full video Web") but that's just going too far. To me, the transition from 1.0 to 2.0 is a little like going from Modern to Postmodern (aside from the fact that these are historical terms with particular meanings for historians): You might as well call it Post-1.0 in that everything that comes after it is revolutionary and new and -- not 1.0. Thus, speaking of what comes next becomes a lexical anomaly: What's after postmodern? Post-postmodernism? I think of Web 3.0 (or "Post Web 2.0") as Tom Turner speaks of post-postmodernism—"Let us embrace post-postmodernism—and pray for a better name."(!)