Constant Random Change

If you’ve been paying attention to the Orange and Bronze guy who talked about Spring Roo, you might have noticed that he mentioned something a bit weird. It was something along the lines of:

…and after that came Ruby on Rails. But Rails never really took off so Groovy and Grails came along and took the spotlight…

Now this statement about RoR is weird when taking into account the previous speakers, especially the G2iX / Exist guys who are successfully using that technology to develop web applications for their clients.

So why did the Spring Roo guy handwave RoR as just a fad?

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While browsing through e-learning items in my Google Reader list, I found this very insightful list from the sidebar of a blog pointed to by a shared link:

What The Blogosphere Wants More Of:

Blog readers want to see more:

• original research,surveys etc.
• original,well-crafted fiction
• great finds: resources, blogs, essays, artistic works
• news not found anywhere else
• category killers: aggregators that capture the best of many blogs/feeds, so they need not be read individually
• clever, concise political opinion consistent with their own views
• benchmarks,quantitative analysis
• personal stories, experiences, lessons learned
• first-hand accounts
• live reports from events
• insight: leading-edge thinking & novel perspectives
• short educational pieces
• relevant “aha” graphics
• great photos
• useful tools and checklists
• précis, summaries, reviews and other time-savers
• fun stuff: quizzes, self-evaluations, other interactive content

Blog writers want to see more:

• constructive criticism, reaction, feedback
• ‘thank you’ comments, and why readers liked their post
• requests for future posts on specific subjects
• foundation articles: posts that writers can build on, on their own blogs
• reading lists/aggregations of material on specific, leading-edge subjects that writers can use as resource material
• wonderful examples of writing of a particular genre, that they can learn from
• comments that engender lively discussion
• guidance on how to write in the strange world of weblogs