Joel at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/10/21.html  - "The term Web 2.0 particularly bugs me. It's not a real concept. It has no meaning. It's a big, vague, nebulous cloud of pure architectural nothingness. When people use the term Web 2.0, I always feel a little bit stupider for the rest of the day."

Dare surprised me by his flipping the bit at http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=de6cdd75-81f1-4c1a-978e-e78509b814df - "the "web 2.0" meme isn't about technology or people, it's about money and hype primarily geared at VCs and big companies looking for small companies to buy so they look hip."

Nick Carr on the Cult of the Amateur and the hyper-hyped upgrade that is Web 2.0 http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/10/the_amorality_o.php 

Web 2.0 now seems to be whatever you want it to be from your perspective - its going to be painful...