1. It's not a fucking word

   It's a phrase. Not only is it a phrase - it's a phrase with two numbers and a goddamn decimal point in it. If a phrase with numbers in it can suddenly be a word, then I would like to make a case for "2 Legit 2 Quit," "lonelygirl15," and "Highlander II: The Quickening."

2. 2. It doesn't MEAN anything

   One of the things about words is that they're supposed to mean things. It's why we have dictionaries. Web 2.0 is something that you say at marketing conferences in, like, 2004, so that the other marketing professionals from the early 2000s will give you their business cards.

3. 3. It makes people from the Internet look bad

   It's already embarrassing enough trying to explain to my parents why Keyboard Cat is important when they ask what the hell I do for a living. Now I have to explain to them that the Internet is not actually the Internet but in fact "Internet 2", which is exactly the same as the original but different. Kind of like "2Fast 2Furious." Which now that I think about it - shouldn't that be a word?

4. 4. The other candidate was going to have been "n00b"

   I'm not kidding. That would at least have been hilarious. 'Cuz, like, when grownups came up to me and said, "Please, sir, could you tell me what is a n00b?" I could have just said "Look in the mirror, n00b." And then punched them in the grundle.

5. 5. It will only encourage them

   Now that they have been officially validated, the bastards are going to start saying "Web 3.0." I just know it. And then where will we be?

The former Reading Rainbow host (and star of Star Trek and Roots ) has taken back his Twitter after an impostor set up a fake account in his name, consequently turning Burton into somewhat of a new media junkie.

The Best Links:

1. Mad Men (and LeVar Burton) on The Soup [VIDEO]
2. LeVar Burton Sings Reading Rainbow Theme Song [VIDEO]
3. Take a Look, It’s in a Blog
4. LeVar’s Blog
5. Follow LeVar On Twitter
6. When Fake LeVar Closed Up Shop
7. Real Levar Burton Twitter Vs. Fake Levar Burton Twitter
8. LeVar Burton Talks Technology on Revision3
9. LeVar Is Passionate About Social Media

A profile of the NY Times' digital team.

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The CSM is closing its doors as a daily paper to become primarily a web publication (a weekly print edition will still be available for subscribers).

The Best Links:

1. The Big Change Will Happen In April
2. “Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy”
3. From the Ashes of the Monitor, a Website

A new site lets you turn readers of your site into copy editors.

The Best Links:

1. GooseGrade on Twitter
2. GooseGrade, Launching Soon
3. Yes, Yes: To Err Is Human

A new site that aggregates blog comments.

The Best Links:

1. “At times, reader comments can be just as thought provoking, if not more so, than the original author’s blog post.”
2. “Now there’s a rich data set!”
3. TechCrunch Calls It “A Twitter For Comments”
4. BackType: Find, Follow and Share Comments

A command line for the internet.

The Best Links:

1. The Big Omission is Pipes, a Way to Chain Commands Together
2. Non-Passionates
3. A Natural Language Web Command Line
4. Introducing Ubiquity

Finally, a social networking feature that mirrors the half-attention of real life.

The Best Links:

1. Arrington Coins the Term “Fake Follow”
2. FriendFeed Beta
3. “Follow” People Without Actually Getting Their Updates
4. “The most important feature in the history of social networks”
5. “This is a little bit genius.”

This Palo Alto start-up thinks you’d have an easier time sorting through your inbox if all correspondence was “paid for” in a system of currency — called “Serios” — that attaches different levels of priority to each e-mail.

The Best Links:

1. E[mail]DD?
2. Seriosity To Fix Email Overload (Or Not)
3. Software Lets Senders Assign Value to E-Mails : NPR

A YouTube for paranormal activity.

The Best Links:

1. Homemade Ouija Boards - Featured on BuzzFeed
2. Elevator Ghost - Featured Video on BuzzFeed
3. Ghost Sightings - Featured on BuzzFeed
4. The Official Website

A fake Twitter competitor dreamed up as a hoax to rile the Twitter-esque Plurk .

The Best Links:

1. Mocking What Shouldn’t Exist With What Doesn’t
2. An Easy Joke to Play on Those With “Social Network Exclusion Anxiety”
3. “It’s probably an elaborate inside joke.”
4. The Flume: an Older Web 2.0 Hoax
5. How the News Spread
6. Lots of Twitter “Thought Leaders” Were in On It Or Fooled by It
7. Follow Pheltup on Twitter

A new micro-blogging service, like Twitter with a timeline.

The Best Links:

1. Tweets for Tweens
2. Targeting the HSTGs (High School Teen Girls)
3. Me No Likey Plurk
4. I Like Plurk Better Than Twitter, But So What
5. Plurk — Twitter For Emos?

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, the notorious couple from The Hills , have announced the launch of their own social networking website Speidiweb .

The Best Links:

1. Connect To Your Assholes, And Your Assholes’ Assholes
2. Here’s the Official Site
3. 15 “Candid” Pics of Heidi and Spencer Vacationing in Mexico
4. The Site Is Down - Does That Mean Their Relationship Is, Too?
5. Heidi and Spencer Reveal All
6. A Website Where They Post All of Their Uber-posed “Candid Shots”

CollegeHumor was all set to take on Facebook staffers in a beer pong tournament until the social networking site pulled out at the last minute, blaming the forfeit on “legal and PR reasons.”

The Best Links:

1. Gawker Says “Challenge!” To CollegeHumor
2. “But What Are We Going to Do With These Awesome Balls?”
3. Facebook Backed Out of a Beer Pong Tournament Via Tumblr [Remove Friend, Please]
4. Facebook Beer Pong Tourney Gets Cancelled, All Bets Are Off
5. Facebook has a prom, too?!
6. Beer Pong Tournament Isn’t Making Facebook Any Older (And It Probably Should)

Imagine if your life worked just like it does on the mammoth social network. Scary, right?

Initially having found success as a video blogger - his wine show attracts 80,000 viewers daily - the “social media sommelier” is out to conquer the world with TV appearances, a Hollywood agent, and a book already in sixth place on Amazon’s Cooking, Food & Wine section.

The Best Links:

1. Kristen Wiig’s Dead-On Jamie Lee Curtis Impersonation
2. Dude’s On Hulu, Too!
3. Hang Out With iJustine and Gary Vaynerchuk! Together! For Real!
4. The Pop17 Interview
5. Conan Today, Tomorrow the World!
6. The Definitive Guide to Gary Vaynerchuk
7. Gary’s Blog!
8. Jeff Jarvis, Essentially the King of the Internet, Claims Vaynerchuk Will Become “The Online Oprah”
9. Buy “101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World”
10. Gary Vaynerchuk’s Daily Wine Video Blog

The mother and businesswoman from Missouri was indicted today by a federal grand jury in California for creating a fake profile on MySpace specifically to bully 13-year-old Megan Meier, who killed herself as a result.

The Best Links:

1. Hitler…Stalin…Lori Drew.
2. Although Lori Drew Admitted Her Hoax “Contributed” to Megan Meier’s Suicide, She Felt “Less Guilty” After Learning That Meier Had Once Attempted Suicide Before [Brain Power!]
3. Read the Indictment Against Lori Drew
4. Only in Missouri Could Lori Drew’s 19-year-old Co-Conspirator Look Older Than Her
5. Lori Drew: The Most Hated Person On The Internet
6. See You in Hell, Lori Drew (…Or On This Site for the Time Being)
7. The MySpace Memorial To Megan Meier, Lori Drew’s Victim
8. “Friend Game:” The Full Story As Excellently Reported In The New Yorker
9. Lori Drew Indicted in MySpace Suicide Case

An attempt to gauge what people really think about brands via the power of tagging.

The Best Links:

1. Playboy’s Brand Tags - Boobs
2. TechCrunch’s Brand Tags - ?
3. Linux’s Brand Tags - Penguin
4. Bud Light’s Brand Tags - Cheap
5. Godin: “The magical way each and every one of these brands compels you to think is fascinating.”
6. Guess The Brand!
7. Brand Tags, Main Page