Posers

I’m going to bring back the term “posers” because I’ve been dealing with a lot of them lately. I remember having such fear of this term that I actually learned to ollie on a skateboard for fear of being called one. Yes, I can actually ride a skateboard down the street and ollie over things. I am not a poser.

There are a bunch of people in San Francisco right now caught up in the whole Web 2.0 thing that are posers. Not programmers, web designers, or sys admins, but just plain posers. They get together at conferences and talk and don’t really DO anything.

Hooray for real developers (or others who are actually producing things, especially the Open Source folk)! We don’t need money to feel valuable because we KNOW we’re not posers.

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10 Comments

  1. Bert Beepers

    Posted February 14, 2007 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

    Oh. My. God. So true.

    *cough*B. Solis/Bub.blicio.us*cough*
    “Covering the social economy”!? What bullshit.

  2. MikeCa

    Posted February 14, 2007 at 6:33 pm | Permalink

    1. posers emulate players
    2. players resent posers
    3. players innovate, distancing from posers

    therefore, posers drive innovation

  3. ale/pepino

    Posted February 15, 2007 at 8:07 pm | Permalink

    Well, talking about Web 2.0 instead of talking about defined technology standards and usability issues can be seen as a pose, too. I like it when things are called their name.

    And that’s what you do in this post. Thank you!

  4. benji

    Posted February 15, 2007 at 8:11 pm | Permalink

    On the real flex, these haters need to recognize.

    When I see a web2.0 poser I just straight punch them in the fucking face.

  5. ben brown

    Posted February 15, 2007 at 9:17 pm | Permalink

    [this is good]

  6. Archfear

    Posted February 16, 2007 at 12:02 am | Permalink

    Posers definitely ruled Web 1.0. Any fool with a computer course under their belt was earning a ridiculous salary while playing foosball and waiting for the bubble to burst. At least there are less of them this time around.

  7. Curt

    Posted February 16, 2007 at 9:47 am | Permalink

    Any time you get a “paradigm-shifting…shazbot” you get people preaching at the streetcorners. But the world has an irritating habit of remaining in existence, and “Web 2.0″ and all the rest of it is no more the sole future than Imagism was destined to take over poetry. Engage your critical faculties, peoples.

  8. Ted R.

    Posted February 16, 2007 at 11:50 am | Permalink

    Poser2.0

    The funny thing is that this time (versus their onslaught on the community in late 90s) is that we can blog, video, tag, comment and taunt the heck out of them.

    We should come up with a tag for just this type of person/behavior. Poser20, allpantnotrouser, shapeshifter?

  9. Dirty Bird

    Posted February 16, 2007 at 3:34 pm | Permalink

    True players figure out how to get rich off of the posers. Pro skaters make a lot more money than most Web 2.0 droids.

  10. Lachlan Hardy

    Posted February 18, 2007 at 3:02 pm | Permalink

    Awesome call! San Francisco isn’t the place where they’re spreading like weeds. I think that’s a term that’ll be in use a lot in Sydney soon!