Who killed the Webmaster?

Excellent blog post from Jamie Begin, on who killed the webmaster.

Jamie speculates the three suspects of being:

1. The march of technology (CSS and XML skills replacing HTML and FTP ones!)
2. The economy (less work since .com bomb)
3. The rise of Web 2.0 (collaboration, UGC)

In my view it's probably more the first and the third, along with marketing people being more interested in using some of the external agencies ahead of internal skilsets such as those of the webmaster, for understandable resource and time to market reasons.

Do I lament the loss of the webmaster? I lament the loss of the cool job title, but things move on - as have I.