Mainstream media dismissed Web 2.0 while West Coast tech insiders embraced it

Evidence

While the mainstream media largely ignored the conference (even the San Francisco Chronicle dismissed it as an “online lovefest”), it was embraced by West Coast technologists. Entrepreneur Jason Calacanis live-blogged the conference, while venture capitalist Esther Dyson snapped photos and instantly posted them to Flickr, the photo-sharing site that served as a centerpiece to the conference. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 151

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• SHARE: The detail that the San Francisco Chronicle called the 2004 Web 2.0 conference an ‘online lovefest’ is a quirky tidbit for anyone into tech history.
• XREF: connects to: West Coast technologists, not mainstream media, first embraced Web 2.0 — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 151