[LINK] architecture astronauts

Deus Ex Machina vicc at cia.com.au
Mon Oct 31 12:01:50 EST 2005


http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/10/21.html

Friday, October 21, 2005

 "Architecture Astronauts Are Back

 I'm starting to see a new round of pure architecture astronautics:
 meaningless stringing-together of new economy buzzwords in an attempt
 to sound erudite.

 When I wrote my original complaint about architecture astronauts more
 than four years ago, it was P2P this and messaging that.

 "That's one sure tip-off to the fact that you're being assaulted by an
 Architecture Astronaut: the incredible amount of bombast; the heroic,
 utopian grandiloquence; the boastfulness; the complete lack of reality.
 And people buy it! The business press goes wild!"

 Now it's tagging and folksonomies and syndication, and we're all
 supposed to fall in line with the theory that cool new stuff like
 Google Maps, Wikipedia, and Del.icio.us are somehow bigger than the sum
 of their parts. The Long Tail! Attention Economy! Creative Commons!
 Peer production! Web 2.0!

 The term Web 2.0 particularly bugs me. It's not a real concept. It has
 no meaning. It's a big, vague, nebulous cloud of pure architectural
 nothingness. When people use the term Web 2.0, I always feel a little
 bit stupider for the rest of the day. 
 ...
 Not only that, the very 2.0 in Web 2.0 seems carefully crafted as a way
 to denegrate the clueless "Web 1.0" idiots, poor children, in the same
 way the first round of teenagers starting dotcoms in 1999 dissed their
 elders with the decade's mantra, "They just don't get it!""




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