David Sifry of Technorati made a very interesting remark about what the web is. He said that we need to stop thinking of the web as a series of pages and indices and begin to think of it as a river or an Event Stream.

My first thought (as I typed this concept mindlessly) was “oh boy, here we go with the pretentious, vacuous metaphors.

As I was typing I noticed that the really cool guy I was sitting next too was diligently blogging the event and snapping photos (his name is Jeremiah Owyang and his blog can be found at http://jeremiahthewebprophet.blogspot.com). Next, I noticed that he had linked to my blog. I glanced in front of me and noticecd that Frank Gruber of Somewhat Frank.com was tracking Jeremiah’s coverage of the conference on Technorati.

Each event spurred another, just like actions in a social network where. People link to people who link to ideas and so forth.

I guess I should get myself a rowboat as, I think Sifry was right!