All-right, I admit it - I am guilty of posting quite a bunch of stuff to the lazyweb. Some other do so as well - but even though the service is really great (thanks to Ben for creating it in the first place) - I believe there is another way.
Why not just post your blog entries to a category called “lazyweb” or include technorati tag “lazyweb”? (You could also trackback to lazyweb.org, but… that defeats my point, if there is one.). This would
- reduce the number of “empty” requests to Ben’s site - which are annoying but only slightly.
- It may increase visibility as there are many more people in the know about technorati.
- It gives people the chance to post to lazyweb through many different mechanisms, blogs, flickr, furl, del.icio.us …
Basically it would replicate most of what Ben already has - you see a list of posts/questions, see a link to the original post. What you lose is the ability to comment on a question directly on “the lazyweb” - but then I am not so sure if anyone ever used this? (It would be quite useful if Ben’s lazyweb-comment system would trackback back to the original poster’s site, too..)
Ah, just wondering. Actually there is no need for people posting to the web to change much, just add that technorati tag and/or the category.
But what needs changing is the visibility to the blogosphere as well as an adopted reader behavior. Will we finally be able to get some forumness and usenet into blogs?
I totally agree about all of this - it’s just a time issue for me, more than anything. Still, if anyone was to build something, they can have the site…