Recently I have developed a really bad attitude about the web. The various ways that Web 2.0 (whatever the hell that is) allows you to generate content makes my head hurt.
When this all started to take off I had this idea about making my homepage a spot where all of the poop I was slinging up on all of these various sites could aggregate together to tell my story. I tinkered around with it for quite a while and found a lot of inspiration from Erik Benson's Buster McLeod's homepage where he has his content all put together very neatly.
This was back before the aggregation applications where a dime a dozen. Heck I even got it working with a little Ruby script that munched on various RSS feeds from all these sites and stored the new stuff in a SQLite database. I might even pull it back out and post it here if I find it.
So one night I'm sitting around getting totally annoyed with the various different places where you can pull your stuff all together. You can do it with FriendFeed, Soup.io, Socialthing, Plaxo, Profilactic, and even Tumblr. There are countless others I'm sure that I'm missing or just don't care about. And all of these sites seem to all home something in common besides bring all of your data together... they want you to be friends with people. It doesn't matter that I've had to make sure I'm friends with all my friends on all the sites they are aggregating. I also have to be friends with my friends on the aggregation sites too. I'm tired of being friendly
In a fury I posted this Twitter message:
This quickly brought a response by my friend Ben Collins:
Which totally makes sense. We are going directly from Web 2.0 (whatever the hell that is) to (web2.0)^2.0 skipping Web 3.0 altogether.
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