E-learning specialist, Donald Taylor today expressed his doubt that 2.0 contributes anything different, better, or durable.

Often my comments on other people’s blogs are better than my original posts.  Such is testimony to the value of the two-way web.  Here’s my attempt to explain what social media offers.

“The best way to think about 2.0 is like the telephone – our lives are extended into a virtual world.  We have bigger lives that also become easier and faster.

And the opposite applies too.  The virtual world extends back into what is called inelegantly, the meatspace world, and changes it.

So just as the telephone allows a relatively poor person to summon an ambulance as easily as a rich person, easier access to connections changes the structure of a community.”

I think that pretty much covers it?

Now we need to add some examples that show the social change that is happening.