i’ve been doing a lot of blog reading and podcast listening the past week or so with the intent of trying to catch up on what net technologies, buzz and news i’ve missed while my head has been stuck in the mba. i have been concentrating on communities developments (though it seems now social design is the new term to use). my general sense has been … except for the name change, not much has changed. there definitely seems to be a new wave of buzz on the concept and a couple new technologies (as you’d expect) but i haven’t seen anything that has knocked my socks off.

the buzz is defintely part of the whole web2.0 hype and there’s a great piece on a list apart about the hype.