Why botlist sucks but doesnt suck as bad?

By and large, I have tried to live a life of purpose. When I mean purpose, I mean that I try to use my time for doing useful things. I try to create useful things. Sometimes it becomes difficult because time is limited and creating useful things in the year 2007, 2008 never straight-forward. I am working on the botlist application as a means of gathering useful information on the web, and filtering useful information on the web, allowing users to filter useful information on the web. Botlist may not get to the point where I want it to, but at least I made an effort to create a useful application. The data is open, the code is open. I will do my best to provide users with other useful tools.

I look at other web 2.0 applications and shake my head in amazement at the uselessness of the various public tools. Twitter is a good example. It will probably receive a lot of funding and the twitter team will come up with a snazzy implementation, but the original concept is pretty useless. Some have called twitter a micro-blog. A blog is worthless (yes, including this one), a micro-blog is worthless times two. Why is it worthless? Isn't it obvious; who cares what you had for breakfast, or that you just got back from the mall. It is kind of funny how PC magazine editors spin twitter into gold because some silicon-valley investor told them to. "twitter!!! it is gold, baby, roll with it"

I don't have any ill will against twitter; twitter is just my reference example of the misguided web2.0 world. I feel the same way about facebook, del.icio.us, myspace, and clones.

Good Web 2.0 Apps/or other projects

Flickr
Google-* (maps, docs, etc)
Reddit (digg, you are skating on thin ice)
LinkedIn
Wikipedia

Suspect Web 2.0 Apps

Twitter
Facebook
MySpace

Thank god no-one reads my blog?

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