Hyperlinked Socius

Just a little more on web 2.0: as Reilly says of the connection between web 2.0 and collective intelligence:

"hyperlinking is the foundation of the web. As users add new content, and new sites, it is bound in to the structure of the web by other users discovering the content and linking to it. Much as synapses form in the brain, with associations becoming stronger through repetition or intensity, the web of connections grows organically as an output of the collective activity of all web users."

Namely, the metaphor of network (in the deliberately ambiguous lexical strategy of 'networked learning') engages in this translation to the web both with the actual networking of hyperlinks and synapses of the web, as well as with the people that post and lodge content with those links - together with the whelter of meaning-making that spreads like a virus across this hyperlinked socius as a result of this function. So here's one basic anchor of the web 2.0/som 2.0 conjunction: that we're talking about networks (technological & social) in a similarly ambiguous manner. That this has (slightly) less to do with the technical network infrastructure of the Internet per se and more to do with the human-ness of the connections of the world wide web, stems from my intention of redressing the imbalance I perceive there to be between the discourses of technology (or technical, in the case of management) education and educational technology within management education: tech-ed versus ed-tech. Another basic anchor is the 2.0 designation - namely an allusion to sequential progression. Whilst the two point zero trope is from the language of software upgrades and alludes to upgrade-fever in general, when applied as the commencement of a sequence, as it is here, it begs the question 'what was web 1.0?' This is the perfect foil for those wishing to condecend to the previous state of web affairs. So what was SoM 1.0?