Comments on: O'Reilly: Stop throwing sheep, do something worthy

In his keynote address at the Web 2.0 Expo, conference czar encourages audience to stop focusing on goofy social-networking applications and instead work to change the world.

[gagahput3ra]

Well, from my point of view, those throwing sheep stuff, microblogging, news network & corporate blogging are ACTUALLY helping to solve most of our modern problems in modern civilizations, which is lack of communication between top and the bottom. I don't know if i putting the right words here, but Twitter, Plurk, Facebook, Friendster, are ACTUALLY a tool to create an influences, to make people AWARE. Yes, i don't know if some of these tools actually work, you know you can't say that if you have one bad apple on your bucket that ten the whole bucket's ruined, but i guess that web 2.0 IS a bubble, and the one that will survive is the one that actually is the right and useful one. The other? DEAD POOL!!! That's why interweb is just like life. Lots of crap, lots of good stuff. And people mostly say bad things about both of it. but in the end, people finally aware that what they get is crap.

[mikehill33]

I wonder how many times he RETWEETED everything he said?

[teeraa]

Here's a site that's not about throwing sheep!

http://www.govit.com

You can vote on legislation, and send your vote directly to Congress. Finally!

[CaptainChunk]

I think Tim has a point. I don't think the best the brightest are only working on "time wasters", but I think what he is driving at is that the best and the brightest need to figure out ways to get more out of the "time wasters".

I think that will come with time. Maybe something like throwing a sheep costs $0.01 that goes to charity or something similar.

Brian
http://www.konnects.com

[inachu]

Is throwing sheep at your friends a pc game?