Rex Lee, who heads up the Collaboration Services group over at Bell Canada, has known and corresponded with nGenera’s Mike Dover for years. But they had never met in person until our Talent 2.0 conference last month. The experience of “finally” meeting someone you already know virtually, inspired Rex’s fascinating blog post: Social Media and The Speed of Trust.

Steve Hodson, who posts about tech and web 2.0 at his WinExtra.com blog, was a guest writer for Mashable yesterday. He argues that web 2.0 businesses are going to make money from donations, not advertisements.

Ditto, which says it aims to “do for opinion what Wikipedia did for facts,” has listed Wikinomics as one of the Rockstars of Web 2.0.

Andrew Dubber lists Wikinomics on his New Music Strategies blog as a website to read for aspiring musicians.

InterGovWorld reports on last week’s Lac Carling conference on web 2.0 and government that included Wikinomics co-author Anthony Williams.