Does Web 2.0 Lead to Laziness?

October 12th, 2007 19 Comments

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:

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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  • http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher Tim

    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 :)

  • http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher Tim

    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 :)

  • Jake

    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.

  • Jake

    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.

  • Jake

    Wow, and after I removed the splogs, Tim’s comment is splogged. Awesome.

  • Jake

    Wow, and after I removed the splogs, Tim’s comment is splogged. Awesome.

  • Meg

    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.

  • Meg

    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.

  • http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher Tim

    The sploggers have got you – you will be assimilated into the splog collective!

  • http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher Tim

    The sploggers have got you – you will be assimilated into the splog collective!

  • Jake

    A bit ironic and a nice lesson in why Interwebs can be a nasty place.

  • Jake

    A bit ironic and a nice lesson in why Interwebs can be a nasty place.

  • http://awads.net Eddie Awad

    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.

  • http://awads.net/ Eddie Awad

    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.

  • Jake

    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.

  • Jake

    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.

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