More about Web 2.0 and the “architecture of participation.” After reading this piece, maybe you’ll think that Tim O’Reilly is a little out there. Maybe you already did. I can’t argue too much with someone who has built a high tech empire on paperback books with woodcut animal characters on the front. It is a testament to the “O’Reilly Standard” that a software/networking/database/programming technology might as well not exist until it has an O’Reilly published about it. For what it’s worth, I had the phrase “The Internet is the Operating System” bouncing around in my head for a long time before I found someone who attributed it to O’Reilly.