Has the snark bubble burst?
Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006
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While some bloggers are gleefully citing a one day drop in stock prices as proof that the Web 2.0 bubble has burst, nobody is noting the more serious decline in the level of snarkiness. Is this the best Supr.c.ilio.us can do?
"I said it before and I'll say it again. This is no way to build a bubble, people! Shake it off and let's make with the hype! We need focus, we need belief and we need to drink more of that Koolaid (mmm... cherry!)."
That's not snark. That is just lame.
And what about my beloved
GFY? Without Richard M. to kick around, they seem lost:
"Is it me, or does the overall quality of the wordpress blogs seem to be inversely proportional to the number of them?
I liked wordpress a lot more when one needed an invite to join."
Wow, observational humor. Boring! The real
canary in the mine is the loss of snarkiness. It was the yin to Web 2.0's yang. If there is nobody ripping companies like Flock a new one, then maybe nobody cares anymore.
Why blog?
Posted on Sunday, November 13, 2005
at 9:51 PM
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Web 2.0's greatest contribution to society may be in inciting people to greater heights of snarkiness. I didn't even know snarkiness was a realy word, but there are 103,000 Google entries for it, so it must be.
Web 2.0 Backlash or Schtick?
Posted on Friday, November 11, 2005
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Two of my favorite Web 2.0 blogs play the role of guardians of the web from the legions of hype-spewing VCs, but I think that is more of an act than reality. Without stupid 2.0 names Go Flock Yourself wouldn't have anything to write about. Witness this rant about Zoozio:
A single page was placed on a new site with yet another cutesy-assed Web 2.0 name (albeit a subpar one -- was z.oozi.us already registered or something?). This page contains not even a lick of content, yet its arrival was picked up and heralded as "news" in the weblogs of an enormous bunch of delusional and self-absorbed nitwits and clowns.
And
Supr.c.ilio.us: The Blog seems more like a collection of wannabes rather than real critics. Still, they are both worth reading for a laugh.
Now I know where these product names come from
Posted on Wednesday, October 26, 2005
at 9:44 PM
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Product names have always been a mystery to me. I thought Yahoo! and Google were absurd, but that was before Web 2.0 names like Zimbra and Ning appeared. Om Malik has discovered the source of these names: Andrew Wooldrige's Web 2.0 name and business plan generator. I used it to create my next startup, Squioliki: web-based auctions via Ruby on Rails.
