Hi David
I don't know what Web3.0 (or 1.7 for that matter) means. But I can see with my own eyes that the tail of your piece today looks like
You can read Downer's piece at www.adelaidenow.com.au or by typing this tiny url into your browser: http://tinyurl.com/pf8lcj
In my browser (Firefox 3) both URLs are highlighted and can be clicked to go to the location. So the advice to 'type the tiny url' is not only redundant, it looks a bit silly.
There's an article in the Business section on Rupert Murdoch's visions (or nightmares) about digital news. RM is quoted as saying "You'll be able to get ... everything on your Blackberry, or Palm, or whatever ...". Can you see there is something missing, a glaring omission that makes me think RM has dissed Apple? Steve Jobs has 62m Google hits, cf RM's 2m, so I cannot believe RM has not been toiling away at a business model for news delivery that includes the iPhone. Young people lust for the Apple tool. Maybe if RM is thinking of concentrating his digital subscription model at the high end (where punters pay $3 for the AFR) then maybe he will give away his newspapers? Apple will have noticed.
Anyway, the Downer piece was very good. But I must disclose that one of our kids is pedalling across Central Asia http://www.steppebysteppe.com.au/ and their GPS tracker stopped signalling a week ago. Probably a technical fault, but ...
