---
title: "Read/WriteWeb Filter"
date: 2006-02-20
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Read/WriteWeb Filter

![boom](https://web.archive.org/web/20080829133221im_/http://static.flickr.com/37/101109631_a012598cd8_m.jpg)– [TechCrunch leads Silicon Valley Web renaissance](https://web.archive.org/web/20080829133221/http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=2609) (I miss the Gatsby mansion… fun times in Silicon Valley)

– [Brian Oberkirch interviews Umair Haque](https://web.archive.org/web/20080829133221/http://www.lightbox5.com/movabletype/archives/2006/02/umair_haque_is.html) (a nice Bubblegeneration 101 on Umair’s theories, which you should take time to grok if you’re in the new media business…)

– [Media Investing’s New Thing: Web2.0](https://web.archive.org/web/20080829133221/http://www.iddmagazine.com/idd/NYTSStories/nytsstories.cfm?id=12032&issueDate=current) (“Any traditional media company, with few exceptions, is being forced to make more difficult strategic decisions on how they move forward.”)

– [danah boyd: Identity Production in a Networked Culture](https://web.archive.org/web/20080829133221/http://www.danah.org/papers/AAAS2006.html) (danah is the smartest person I know of when it comes to social networks and teens. In this essay/talk, she explores how teens are using MySpace.)

– [Noah Brier: A Call for Unbundling](https://web.archive.org/web/20080829133221/http://www.noahbrier.com/archives/2006/02/a_call_for_unbundling.php) (“After an inventory it’s time to start assigning values and considering alternate forms of distribution.”)

– [Matthew Haughey on TV blogging](https://web.archive.org/web/20080829133221/http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2006/02/rambling_about.html) (“Maybe stuff like clips on YouTube vs. regular format TV is kind of like how blogging was first viewed critically in 1999-2000.”)

– [Kanye West & Media 2.0](https://web.archive.org/web/20080829133221/http://www.buffalorising.com/city/archives/2006/02/kanye_west_media_20.php) (it’s all about the conversation…)

Flickr pic [by Mike Arrington](https://web.archive.org/web/20080829133221/http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelarrington/101109631/)

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_fi_4.php))*