Good article. The point about the term becoming muddled and meaningless is pretty spot on. When I first started hearing this term being used all over the place

Good article. The point about the term becoming muddled and meaningless is pretty spot on. When I first started hearing this term being used all over the place (heck, Toronto's already had a couple mini-conferences laced with this buzzword), I assumed we were talking about systems with "real time" data flows like Pachube. Now the term seems to have boiled down to "I taped my F5 key down".