If the term “Web 2.0″ weren’t baffling enough, along comes ” Gov2.0.” You’d reasonably expect Gov2.0 to refer to the application of Web 2.0 to the work of government.

But this only re-begs the question of what Web 2.0 is.

Billions of pixels have been discharged in attempts to explain. I’ll take my shot, but will keep it short: Three 140-character chunks:

Web 1.0: The tweaky or well-capitalized few push information at a large, passive audience. Like Gutenberg, but faster and with cool eyewear.

Web 2.0: Users connect to each other using cheap, easy “social media” [blogs, Twitter, Facebook]: instant, global, multimedia conversation.

Gov2.0: The use of social media to govern and serve the public, who themselves use social media. Big change. Peril? Promise? Correct.

Well, that’s my story, and I’m stickin’ with it. For now.

This is the beauty of 2.anything. We’re all figuring it out as we go along.