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By: Alex Barnett blog

Alex Barnett blog — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:42:05 +0000

H2.0 and ‘the party to end all parties’

It is with dubious pride that I announce that this blog has joined the new Hack 2.0 Workgroup. The…

By: Alex Barnett

Alex Barnett — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:38:56 +0000

Hey Michael,

I put the Hack2.0 page together, with some help from Alicia who did the logo.

The ‘original’ idea (hacking Memeorandum) was not anything to do with the sexism story. No was it meant to be taken seriously.

No ‘disenfranchisement’ either. Just a bit of fun.

As Pete points out, he blogged it in relation to the ‘Human’ vs. Alogorithm’ angle. In fact it got blogged in relation to so many angles that the ‘original’ idea got lost. I think that’s why it is quite funny that you blog the H2.0 effort in relation to sexism – it’s another tangent off the original idea.

Anyway, Digg next.

By: PeteCashmore

PeteCashmore — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:44:43 +0000

Michael,

Well, I didn’t ask to be part of it (I just happened to blog on a similar subject), and to be honest I think this “hack 2.0 workgroup” is stretching it a bit thin. I don’t consider myself one of the “people who started it” and I don’t plan to mention the workgroup on my blog. And I definitely don’t feel any disenfranchisement with the blogosphere – the exact opposite, actually.

I think this is probably just a joke and should be taken as that. I moved on to new topics pretty quickly and I hope everyone else will too.

By: Paul Montgomery

Paul Montgomery — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:36:00 +0000

Ah, so it’s apes then.

By: Eran G

Eran G — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:59:29 +0000

I just do it cause it’s funny. funny to me. Also, it’s always interesting to find out how things work, isn’t that what geeks do? Finally, I dont think it has got all that much to do with the original story anymore, it’s become its own story.

Or maybe it’s just supr.c.ilio.us rubbing off on people?

By: Paul Montgomery

Paul Montgomery — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 07:22:09 +0000

Perhaps because one of the roots behind the “experiment” was the ongoing sense of disenfranchisement – that the A2 bloggers feel intimidated by the relative reach of the A1 bloggers.

Or maybe it’s a generational thing – notice how apart from Tara, the W2W peeps are noticeably older on average than the Hacks? Dave didn’t call it the OFGN for nothing.

Or it could just be plain old simian group behaviour.