I know I’ve been gone for a bit . . . mostly cause I’m lazy and my dog ate my keyboard (honest!). So for the past 3 days, I’ve been surfing like mad, looking for an interesting topic / news / company to blog about to keep this blog from being a splog.

I found . . .nada, zilch, nothing . . .

There was some stuff about DRM, some more stuff about 10+ different social networking site getting more funding, more stuff about Google, some more stuff about enterprise 2.0, and oh ya, lots of bitching about Skype.

The only thing remotely interesting was a social networking site for exhibitionists (found it on TechCrunch, so don’t you get to thinking I was doing some sort of shady surfing) . . . and that has nothing to do with the site being interesting . . . it just had “interesting” pictures . . .

Really though, this whole user generated content, community, and long-tail web 2.0 trend has gotten all the permutation it could have gotten for the past 2 years. (Digg for golfer, myspace for bankers, virtual world for LSD abusers etc etc).

I certainly believe that true that innovation never stops, and that we will never “run out” of new ideas or better ways of doing things . . . interesting, ground breaking companies and concepts are being launched all the time . . . even as I’m bored to death at this current moment. What I’m complaining about is that we (including me) tend to see the world in lenses . . . and the current lens is so tainted with the “2.0 mindset” that we tend to filter out people/companies that does not fit in our neat little way of viewing the world.

I’m ashamed to say that if someone showed me Myspace in 2002 I would have told them that I already got tired of Friendster and GeoCities. (and that I refuse to visit any site where black background is still encouraged). Actually this is a true story, I bounced off the site in under 60 secs after signing up.

So I’m bored, and its all our fault . . . wake me up when 3.0 happens.

P.S. I was bored before he was bored . . . (and before he was un-bored)