In full disclosure this is my post on the Huffington Post. Enjoy.
Over the past decade there has been a fundamental and global change in who defines what information is on the Internet. Web 2.0 is nothing short of a revolution — a climate shift in which an everyday consumer has the potential to become a producer of content. We no longer lay wait impatiently for the next morsel of information. The Web 2.0 tools available to us – allow us to create, curate, distribute and comment. These tools are household names – Twitter, Facebook, the Huffington Post and Mashable just to name a few. These platforms have given us an alternative to the mainstream channels.
The consumption and production of content has become an infectious movement.