Comments on: One Web Day dawns http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/09/20/one-web-day-dawns/ by Jeff Jarvis Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:40:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: knackeredhack http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/09/20/one-web-day-dawns/#comment-383122 knackeredhack Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:46:31 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=3807#comment-383122 Jeff, You're right that there are better ways to spend that kind of money. It might also be worth examining to what extent technology, and Web 2.0 specifically, has been a beneficiary of the easy money culture of the past 10 years. A lot of individuals and companies that started after the dotcom implosion perhaps reached viability because the Fed primed the economic pump so hard. Absent a revived housing market that then headed for a bubble and the so-called resilience of the US consumer, the world for those early bloggers and startups might look very different today. Tim Jeff,

You’re right that there are better ways to spend that kind of money.

It might also be worth examining to what extent technology, and Web 2.0
specifically, has been a beneficiary of the easy money culture of the past 10 years. A lot of individuals and companies that started after the dotcom implosion perhaps reached viability because the Fed primed the economic pump so hard. Absent a revived housing market that then headed for a bubble and the so-called resilience of the US consumer, the world for those early bloggers and startups might look very different today.

Tim

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