[The Inquisitr] If blogging 1.0 was about enabling the conversation on each blog, blogging 2.0 is about enabling the conversation across many blogs and supporting sites and services. The conversation has matured and no longer is it acceptable to believe that as a content owner you hold exclusive domain over conversations you have started. Users/ readers today demand more than a conversation on one site, and blogging 2.0 facilitates this.

Besides the computer industry’s incessant need to version number everything (Web 2.0, Business 2.0, Economy 2.0, Email 3.0, Widgets 3.2, Spork 1.5, etc), I always find it fascinating when people proclaim that blogging is the catalyst for something more, something actually metaphysical: a conversation (ooooo! ahhhhh!). And it’s not just any conversation, mind you, but (get ready, here it comes..) a meme.

Sure, I get it, there’s lots of different reasons people blog. Heck, I’ve been writing down whatever random thought that leaks out of my skull here since 2001, but the reality is that I keep this thing running (even after a temporary hiatus) because I have this weird need to share information. It may be a joke, some random hack, an interesting link, a programming tip or just something completely odd thats going on in my life, but its a way for me to write my thoughts down and get it out of my system. Is anyone listening? Is it a conversation? I doubt it.

Basically, blogging is cheap therapy. There’s nothing “2.0″ about it.