Enjoyed Euan Semple’s post on the clash of cultures between IT and web 2.0 from Vegas.

Mechanic/organic’ is my current classification of this debate. It’s not a million miles from a v. short paper I wrote back in 2000; my comment below…

There’s the hidden subtle cultural differences between traditional IT mindset (to simplify call it ‘mechanical’) and web 2.0 idealists (‘organic’) not to mention the cultural issues of any E2.0 implementation behind the firewall. That’s quite a challenge!