---
title: "Book deal and new ZDNet blog"
date: 2005-09-07
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# Book deal and new ZDNet blog

A couple of weeks ago [I began](https://web.archive.org/web/20060315002010/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002807.php) my new life as a full-time freelance Web Analyst and Writer.

One of the things I’ll be doing is co-writing a book for [O’Reilly Media](https://web.archive.org/web/20060315002010/http://www.oreilly.com/) on the topic of Web 2.0. I started writing it this week.

I’ve also just started a [ZDNet](https://web.archive.org/web/20060315002010/http://www.zdnet.com/) blog, called [Web 2.0 Explorer](https://web.archive.org/web/20060315002010/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/). There are two posts up there already, including one I wrote tonight entitled [What is Web 2.0](https://web.archive.org/web/20060315002010/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=5).

With all this Web 2.0 writing I’m doing, you may be wondering what’s going to happen to [Read/Write Web](https://web.archive.org/web/20060315002010/http://readwriteweb.com/)? Don’t worry, my focus here on R/WW will remain on Web 2.0. Indeed I will be doing more detailed analysis and theory posts on the topic. There’ll be more deep thinking and I’ll be blogging ideas that I plan to cover in the book. I’ve been impressed by Chris Anderson’s ability to develop ideas and gather feedback from the blogosphere [about The Long Tail](https://web.archive.org/web/20060315002010/http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/) for his book, so I’m hoping to do something similar here.

Oh and I have some exciting new features to try out on Read/Write Web. Stay tuned 😉

So, over the coming months I’ll be drilling down into Web 2.0 on R/WW, in a book, and on my new [ZDNet blog](https://web.archive.org/web/20060315002010/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/). The next step is probably to get a Web 2.0 tattoo.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/book_deal_and_n.php))*