Stowe Boyd on Web 2.0

I was interviewed a few weeks ago, by CIO.com’ Diann Daniel, at the Cutter Consortium’s Summit, where I presented a keynote on Web 2.0:

[from Stowe Boyd on Web 2.0 in the Enterprise - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership]

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All the sudden you have this renaissance happening on the Web and with such technologies as open source challenging the established software players. It’s all very destablizing, and the natural tendency for a lot of people is to say, I don’t like this and I’m going to resist it for as long as I can and I will try to rally people around me to help me resist the invasion of these new ideas. I hate to say it but that change-resistant behavior is, for many, human nature.

It’s all about fear and avoidance, alas.

They also interviewed JP Rangaswami (see Web 2.0 for the Suits: One Visionary’s Take), who came over from London to support my panel session.