Facebook: They're all zombies.

This just in: Web 2.0 is dead, according to Robin Wauters of TechCrunch.  So all those articles you’re reading on Digg?  Zombies.  Your friends on Twitter?  Yep, zombies.  And the annoying 25 Things posts on Facebook?  Definitely zombies.  (Okay, that last one was not terribly surprising, as I’m sure someone just reanimated the corpse of an old Livejournal quiz.)

Really, these death pronouncements are just silly.  Paul isn’t dead.  Rock isn’t dead.  And Web 2.0 isn’t dead.  (Hip-hop may or may not be dead; it took five slugs to the chest and was last seen in critical condition.  Developing story.)

First of all, I always thought my little gig as webmaster/PHP programmer would seem quaint as compared to that of a professional blogger.  But apparently, all it takes to be a professional blogger is to traverse a few search results on Google Trends.  Awesome!  I think I’ll put in my two-weeks notice.

Web 2.0... Pirates... It's all connected! Quick, somebody call Al Gore!

Sorry, Ms. Wauters, I understand it’s an opinion piece and my intention is not to pick on you…  But if someone is going to announce the death of Web 2.0, I would like to read some actual opinions in that opinion piece.  Not just a collection of charts courtesy Google.

Well then, allow me to add my opinions.

Web 2.0 isn’t dead.  Let’s cool it with the zombie jokes for now, but Web 2.0 is something you can’t kill.  It’s never been fully formed.

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