"What is Web 2.0"

You know what?  After reading THIS article, I'd like to know myself.  It seriously does not make anything clearer as to what Web 2.0 is.  The most useful thing I found was a chart on the first page, before discovering multiple pages of what turned out to be a bunch of literary diarrhea.  Seriously, could someone make it any more  complicated?

 All it really seems to do is take the concepts described in the previous reading "Streams of Content" and breaks them down into detailed accounts.  Which, by itself, is just fine.  But on such a scale! This guy tries a little too hard.

For instance, when it talks about Wikipedia, it breaks down the concept of how ordinary users can contribute information on the internet.  Fair enough.  Then it goes on to say how this concept was an experiment in trust (a failed experiment, in my opinion, since someone decided to replace the text on Obama's Wikipedia page with OBAMA SUCKS MONKEY BALLS).  Okay, I can get that. This, by itself, is a good breakdown of a Web 2.0 example.

Now, a bad example would be the section on blogging.  Yes, I'm going to bash blogging again, on my own blog (oh, the painful irony).  It goes on to talk about how blogging has replace web pages as way of users expressing themselves.  Fair enough.  The author then says it's become a form of online diary-writing, which isn't a bad observation.  The author calls it a form of dynamic website that allows the user to connect with like-minded people.  That's good enough, no need to go into further detail.
But then the reading goes on to explain the RSS crap that once championed by hackers is now being used as a way of going beyond the internet and into blah blah blah...TMI!  Who gives a rat's ass?  How does this help define Web 2.0?  Yes, new technology goes into it,  but new technology goes into everything! in the end, he is supposed to be talking about the concept and nothing more.  Not that it isn't a good thing to know, but talking about the technology of Web 2.0 is talking about another topic entirely.  They are two separate topics, and should be discussed as such if any message wants to be clearly conveyed.