One of my favorite, well educated, and subsequently well written "blogs" is Rough Type by Nicholas Carr. Recently, Carr has posted a piece entitled "The Automation of Social Life", this post in particular, (along with this post about "Web 3.0") raises the question that I think needs to be asked of the computer industry, "Can sociology really be re-engineered?". While terms like "ROI" and "COGS" don't mean much to "Generation I", they do have very specific meaning to the business managers and engineering managers that make everything happen on the Internet. I concur that after 10 years, business on the Internet has safely succeeded, as Will Femia of "Clicked" mentions, not everyone wants to spend the extra time it takes to log in/out of 10 different applications a day. I think Hugh, of "Gaping Void" notoriety sums it up best, with bullet point number 4, of his post "Why We're Blogging Less" -
"4. Believe it or not, some of us have better things to do than to be continually justifying ourselves to a crowd of passive-aggressive, self-loathing, loser fucktards."