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I had a conversation last night about the creation of 'evil' within organisations. Is evil-doing part of the organisation's foundations or does it develop as they grow? Can evil-done be reversed with change? Obviously the Olympics exclusion of women came up, and we both agreed that with organisations that have a history of unethical or inequal standards, the only way to rectify the situation completely is to dissolve and re establish fresh and new. Yes women will be able to ski jump soon, as they are now allowed to compete in other previously denied areas of the games, however this does not help us. It is humiliating to beg to be allowed to join something everyone else is allowed to join, and to be grateful when they 'let you'.

This brings me to another point for anyone following the emergence of Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is meant to be the new generation of the web, while the exact definition is left undefined, the foundation of the movement is open standards, low barriers to entry, and equal playing field. However the market has just shut down.  

The web 2.0 movement has a few key players, they got in early and control the airspace. These people have blogs that have readerships upwards of 10,000 a day, they are very knowledgeable. However time has passed and there are more and more people in the space, however, what you notice soon enough is that the same names crop up. Even names that don't have much more to add than their reputation, these 'A-listers' appear to be colluding to keep others out. This small group, founded on the basis of web freedom are tending towards web domination. I think a lot of people are beginning to talk about this, I just thought I'd mention now, while we are in the early stages, that this is how it happens. Good intentions, followed by excitement about success, followed by ambition to remain successful at all costs, followed by abandonment of initial intentions.

It's sad to see it happening again.