Names@Work is honored to host this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists, a travelling collection of the best blog posts about business and the world. Great stuff.

Here’s my definition of Web 2.0:
Web 2.0 is, collectively, the technological responses to the rising social and commercial power of people on the Internet.
In my view, Web 2.0 is not really a technological phenomenon at all; it’s a social one, enabled by technology.
A key point: by “people,” I don’t mean clients or [...]

The first Networked Book! Our efforts for book publishers begin with Farrar, Straus Giroux’s Pulse by Robert Frenay. Some thoughts on the future of book publishing.

A Timeline of publishing books via RSS, beginning with the Gutenberg Project and ending with Names@Work’s publication of Robert Frenay’s Pulse on behalf of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Not all outbound links are created equal. Doing it right can really help you boost your traffic. The science of Linkology.

Georg Simmel’s 1910 essay “On Sociability” has deep insights into how online conversations work — and why sometimes they don’t.

The new version of WordPress (the software for this blog) has a small bug. If you make comments, they’ll show up, but the counter at the bottom of each post says “No Comments” no matter how many there are. Apologies.

Eric Weaver writes an inspired rant about direct marketers treating customers as if they were clay pigeons. I show that the practice is not restricted to the “Old School” marketers.

An underlying theme of the new web economy is authenticity and trust. Blogs have it, corporate web sites don’t. Or so they say. How does it work, and will it last?

DomainRookie, A blog about the Domainer industry is up for sale in the “thousands, not hundreds”