Congratulations on being so very Web 2.0.
If you have “largely been ignoring” Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child initiative because you dismiss it as “noble but not interesting”, you are blinded by your specialization and your ego. How fortunate that OLPC has survived the crushing blow of being largely ignored by you.
Negroponte’s team is doing something real for the people of this world. You are writing an oh-so-vital blog. One may make mistakes but is yet both visionary and aiming to do practical good in a corpocratic world.
The other takes almost no effort or discipline, is without any qualitative measure other than total number of visits by Digg zombies, and achieves nothing. Very Web 2.0 indeed.