Duncan Riley makes interesting points over at The Inquisitr, pointing out that blogging 2.0 is “the blogosphere’s first counterculture movement.”

To back up a few steps though, the definition of blogging 2.0 is still evolving, and like the strange and nebulous term web 2.0 can and likely will mean different things to different people. When I started looking into this brave new world of blogging 2.0 back in May, I came in with the assumption that blogging 1.0 was a relatively more ordered world where blog publishers:

• Published stories (and the more the better)

• Created value around a topic or topics

• Attracted readers, and hopefully actively participated in comments

• Built a destination presence that brought back readers regularly

• Made money through the page views and ad impressions generated

Riley however goes back a little bit further than my point of origin, hearkening back to a time where there was a “collective sense of community” in which bloggers linked out and shared information out of love for the community and medium as opposed to a more b