Kurt Andersen freely admits that, while tooling around as the editor of the magazine he now columns for, he didn't know what the Web was. And when he was running the ship at an Internet business vehicle, he acknowledges he didn't know about blogs. Or RSS. In fact, his column in this week's New York pretty much establishes him as an Internet fucktard (we're just pulling from Dictionary.com's antonym listing for "visionary"), which actually might make him more qualified to talk about Internet business than, say, Jason Calacanis. And we welcome that. Except when he tries to describe the difference between the Web boom of yesteryear and the Web boom of today and gets things miserably wrong.

The vocabulary and doctrine are different, of course. To call a Web business a “dot-com” in 2006 would be the equivalent of calling a black person “colored.” …

In other words, people are still having sex with strangers, but now it’s safer sex.

And with the resurgence of Silicon Alley, did we mention this is our tsunami?

Though to be sure, Andersen did use some copy to take a swipe at favorite foe Michael Wolff, and for that we can forgive him.

The Way We Boom Now [Kurt Andersen, New York]