The hardware guys now have Make. But what do the software guys and girls have for all that is need-to-know in the Web 2.0 world? Wired? Sorry, Wired is now like MTV after they got rid of the music videos. (Perhaps that means that Wired should spawn a sister magazine called Wired2.)

Another possibility is Business 2.0 (the magazine), but that was created to cover Web 1.0. A magazine for Web 2.0 needs to cover the open source coders and small startups in Chicago and how it is they’re actually making money… So, does that mean Business 3.0, the magazine, will cover Web 2.0? This reminds me how much I hate version numbers… Perhaps, I’ll start a new meme and not say “Web 2.0″ when I talk about Ruby, Rails, Python, Django, Ajax, and 42nouns. For the next 27 days I’m calling it “Web 2005 – Professional Amateur Edition” (Act now, cause I’m closing out inventory to make room for Web 2006.)

… quiet pause to meditate on the previous paragraph…

Oh, nevermind, I get it now… thinking that stuff needs to be printed on paper by some New York City printing house is an antiquated Web 1.0 frame of mind. Web 2.0, the magazine is digg.com, technorati.com and Planet-based sites like planetpython.org. All I have to do is write a quick Python script to download some Atom feeds and pipe them directly to my DeskJet printer… Then, without much hype (a missing feature if this is truly Web 2.0), I’ll have what I was actually looking for… some interesting reading material for my next trip to the john (“water closet” for all the Brits in the flat).