The 23 things program has laudable goals. It wishes to encourage people to learn about the "new" "web 2.0" things as part of a lifelong learning plan.
Let's see. Web 2.0 is just a fancy name for stuff that has been around for ages. Just another buzzword to get lots of people excited about a whole lot of nothing. There's nothing really new in any of this technology.
As for a lifelong learning plan, some of us choose to go without a plan. Having everything structured for us, or worse, by us seems to me to be a limiting factor. The goal is to "break out of the box" but the plan is to build a different box. Sure, it's not a traditional box, but it is still a box. A modification of a line from "The Matrix" ("There is no spoon.") seems apropriate here: There is no box.
