Is the web going from amateur to semi-pro?

This was a very good article written to emphasise some interesting points:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/06/is_the_webs_amateur_hour_over.html

I've had similar thoughts in the past. The web is hindered sometimes by the everyone can do it at any time kind of way it operates. The amount of junk out there is phenomenal, see my previous posts about clearing the junk off the internet if you want to read more.

As 'amateurs' have populated the web with all sorts of content, I see it as being a necessary learning curve for society to understand what we might do with the web that's needed and effective. The web provides a very necessary entry point for many people to understand their real potential. For example, the child that dreams of being a journalist can now experience that very early on and develop skills long before a University is needed to turn them into a journalist. Even better if the child realises that journalism is not what they dreamed of and their attentions go elsewhere to something more suitable, stopping another person drifting into a profession for which they have no love for.

Web 2.0 for me is where the web went from being amateur to semi-pro. We now see experinced pre-digital content developers begin to understand the web and make it their slave, rather than being its. The Stephen Fry's of this world are embracing the technology (Twitter in Stephen's case) in a way that we hadn't thought likely, and the old guard are probably feeling a little better about the whole thing in general.