LazyWeb Proves Itself
Seems like several well-known bloggers have taken a shine to the LazyWeb meme–today, Steven Johnson tossed out another idea. To summarize, the idea of “LazyWeb” is that if you talk about something on the web long enough, it’ll eventually just happen–or will have already happened. To wit, ShouldExist has been a repository for grand ideas for some time now. The main differences between ShouldExist and the concept of LazyWeb is that LazyWeb projects are often less grandiose, more on the order of a couple afternoons’ work for some smart cookie, and that LazyWeb projects (the ones we hear about, anyway) benefit from the “star power” of their conceptualizers.
It turns out that I’ve been working on a few ShouldExist projects without realizing it (see greenpittsburgh.net and bus.MAYA.com):
Ultra map Mapquest for public transportation Public domain map…