the guardian on web 2.0

Those of you interested in the web as a communication medium may want to check out the Guardian Magazine's feature on Web 2.0 from this weekend. The interested but ultimately cynical John Lanchester writes the main story surveying recent developments in cyberspace (do people still call it that?) and there are interviews with the key figures involved - the people who brought us Wikipedia (fantastic - but don't quote it in essays...), MySpace, YouTube and all the rest of it.

Lanchester reckons its all clever stuff but is doubtful that sitting at a computer can ever replace face to face human interaction. What do you think?

And if you get bored of techy stuff - it can happen - then they also have a nice looking recipe for yammy gingerbread...