Yours truly has expressed more than a few times a somewhat jaundiced view of the hype over Web 2.0. Now comes a study from the small business arena that supports the idea that Web 2.0 is cool, but perhaps not practicle when it comes to using Web 2.0 concepts.

Lauren Simonds of our highly read SmallBusinessComputing.com site has an article that delves into this issue. Web 2.0 is hot with the VC community. It makes for great reading. But the backbone of commerce is the small business owner. This group is not buying the hype.