Here's to the bleedingly obvious

Count on the NYT editorial page to provide us with blinding glimpses of the bleedingly obvious. I found John Battelle's "And Your Point Is?" post very humorous:

So, having done that, I still don't quite get what this editorial adds...in the end, it says that Google is really important and that it won't go away, and summarizes all the things Time readers already know about the company. He concludes that the Internet is, contrary to what he thought some years ago, quite useful, in large part thanks to Google. Well, welcome to the party, Verlyn. Glad you're aboard.

I remember the first days of the web when it was heavily criticized for lacking, as Verlyn Klinkenborg might put it, credibility. So much chaotic, unedited, unmanaged, and unplanned information. So much chaos and so much crap. But it was organic and that crap fertilized some pretty powerful applications. Google is just one of the many ways we are able to personally organize the web. I think we are in a similar "chaos" phase when it comes to the social web—the emerging world of blogs, wikis, semantics, RSS/ATOM/FOAF, social networks, etc.—and while it may take another decade to earn Verlyn's seal of approval, the rest of us may find it handy before then.