Web 2.0 Critique (auf Deutsch)

By Geert Lovink, September 8, 2006 at 4:45 pm.

Some translations of work done in Berlin start to appear. This week it is a German translation of the introduction to Zero Comments, my upcoming book. It is in fact a shortened version that only looks at the Web 2.0 hype. The piece was published by the Jungle World weekly in their Lekker Käseblatt special issue about the Netherlands. I also put the text on my pages, just in case it disappears from the Jungle World site.

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