Solution Causes New Problem So Sell New Solution Which Causes New Problem . . .

Hi Martin,

I get your point, but I have an even better solution to these problems with Twitter - don't believe the hype about web 2.0. The name 'web 2.0' is enough of a giveaway that that whole side of the industry is trying too hard to make itself look useful. But enough people will jump on anything shiny that moves to create two situations which make my approach more valid -

a) they overload these things with noise, making it difficult for anyone to get heard, and the automation brigade sees the big bucks in selling 'solutions' to the 'shiny-thing magpie' crowd, which again clutters everything up with more noise. Google sees the noise and the hype and a flock of marketing magpies, and acts accordingly.

b) while the 'shiny-thing magpie' crowd are busy 'over there', they're not busy 'over here' where web 1.0 is still doing what it does - really well.

In my opinion, on the internet, all that glitters (gets hyped) is most definitely not gold - unless you're hawking 'solutions' (IE shovels) to the magpies.

Stuff that doesn't glitter often rocks (pun intended).

Example - just look around the forum today. One of the stalwarts of affordable automation is forced to add new features in order to revamp pricing in order to 'keep up with the Joneses.' No problem there. But in order to justify an overall increase in cost for the average customer, they feel that they need go a bit overboard with the adding of new features, PLUS they decide to make the whole thing more shiny to help justify the increase.

End result - they break something that didn't need fixing in the first place.