What an exciting week. It began with the observation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day followed by the  inauguration of our 44th President, Barack Obama. It’s a fitting coincidence that Moya’s recap of Web 2.0 Summit, which took place in November, commencing the day after elections, was brought to my attention.

With several political figures gracing our stage at Summit, including the honorable Al Gore, Arianna Huffington and Gavin Newsom, Moya shares that not only did the sessions at Web 2.0 Summit concentrate on its theme of Web Meets World but in her opinion, the conference was also about how Web meets politics.

I’d like to share some of her sentiments here:

You could say that last week’s Web 2.0 Summit lived handily up to its theme “Web Meets World.” You could also say that although I was present in the audience, never more than five rows back from the stage, I was in a major post-election daze throughout and, well, missed some things. Undeniably through this watery filter, as I sit this week and try to wrap up my thoughts on the event, what’s clearly in focus is that what the Web really met last week at the Summit was Politics. I might even try to tell you that’s the only thing — and the most important thing — it met.

Would you blame me? The day after Obama was elected President of the United States, the top-three trending topics on Twitter (say that three-times-fast!) were, in this order: Prop 8, web2summit, and Obama — and they stayed that way throughout nearly the entire conference.

What follows is my wrap, therefore, of the Web 2.0 Summit 2008: Web Meets Politics.

Click the link above to read the full entry. Thanks for your recap Moya. And for those who were not in attendance, here is the video to Al Gore’s conversation with conference chairs John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly.

Tags: politics, web2summit

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