Web 2.0

Can everyone stop claiming to unrolling the next web 2.0 site?

User participation and a more democratic platforms are great ideals but personally I believe more in Wikipedia’s model than Youtube’s. And while the philosophy of wikipedia is in delivering a democratic platform and accessibility to knowledge, it’s also (very) much moderated, which detracts from the ideals of democracy, doesn’t it?

I subscribe to that whole Foucauldian power/knowledge dialectic and Lutheran ideals of transferring knowledge(and power, according to Foucault) to the hands of many as opposed to a few but complete democracy as embodied by sites where just about (everybody) can post a video seems too indulgent, too wasteful, too pointless for it to be definitive of a whole generation of websites.