Does Web 2.0 Lead to Laziness?
Not a day after Puneet commented that I am “able to churn out so many high quality posts so often” (his words, unsolicited), I am having writer’s block.
I blame the Interwebs and Life in general for not being interesting enough today. So, in lieu of real content, I’m going to riff (tongue in cheek) on the laziness of New Web. Observe the core principles and cornerstones of Web 2.0 and their real world meanings:
- Blog: I am too lazy to proofread or even write full sentences, but you must read what I say. And link to it.
- Wiki: I am too lazy to make changes to HTML. Do it yourself.
- Social Network: I want to be wildly popular without building real relationships. That takes too much time and effort.
- Wisdom of Crowds: I don’t know the answer, so rather than do any work, I’ll ask a bunch of people and cherry-pick the good stuff.
- Crowdsourcing: I’m too lazy to do X. It sure would be great if I had a bunch of other people to help me do my work.
- Folksonomy: I’m too lazy to maintain a list of values. Do that yourself.
- Tagging: I didn’t bother coding any attributes because that’s too hard. Do it yourself.
- Perpetual Beta: Testing is too much work. Do it yourself.
- Lightweight Programming Models: Learning to code is too much work.
- RSS: I am too lazy to visit all the websites I want to read.
- Mashup: Why can’t everything be on a map?
- Web Service: I don’t want to build an integration, why don’t you build it for me?
That was fun. I love New Web, don’t get me wrong. I do feel like it has made me lazier, though.
What do you think? I know, more content, more Oracle, no more (More…) in the feed. You did this to me.
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October 12th, 2007 at 6:36 pm
Il mio feedreader ha accolto il suo primo tumblr. Riesco a leggere con attenzione si e no un terzo dei post.Essere in una multinazionale significa essere colleghi di blogger di uncertolivelloRecentemente ho riletto le mail che mi scambiavo con un’amica otto anni fa, prima di rovinare tutto grazie alle mie, già allora presenti, capacità suicide. Quando, e se, tra 10 anni rileggerò quello che scrivo su questo blog, in nessun modo
October 12th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Hey Jake
You missed one – Splog – maybe a part of the underbelly of Web2.0 – the height of laziness, I’ll just steal everyone else’s hard written content – all of your trackbacks point to a perfect example. I wonder what search criteria they are using to scrape your entry – ‘laziness’ maybe
October 12th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Yeah, I’m cleaning those up in a sec. The post on MySpace got splogged too. I think it was the Saw 4 part. Weird.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Wow, and after I removed the splogs, Tim’s comment is splogged. Awesome.
October 12th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Jake – you forgot the audience participation one — I’m too lazy to do real work myself so I’ll spend my time reading your blog instead.
October 12th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
The sploggers have got you – you will be assimilated into the splog collective!
October 12th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
A bit ironic and a nice lesson in why Interwebs can be a nasty place.
October 12th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Nice list. I’m definitely guilty of being lazy. I do not bother with partial feeds unless I have to, and usually I do not have to.
Many bloggers publish partial feeds because they think that this will *force* readers to click through and land on their blog. This is often not true. After blogging for more than two years, I have come to realize that if you want more readers, you have to set your content free and publish full feeds.
So, Jake, when are you going to get rid of this (more…) link in your feed?
have a good weekend.
October 13th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Yeah, the reason we use it is to keep the front page of oracleappslab.com more lively, i.e. more posts show not only above the fold but all the way to the bottom. A long post could dominate the entire page.
I guess we can put it to a vote.
October 13th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Then you may find the homepage excerpts WordPress plugin useful. I use it on my blog.