This article on the LazyWeb is more than 5 years old. The implementation it describes now 404s, and its spinoff is dead (”The LazyWeb is now closed.”).

I think the original formalisation of the LazyWeb idea was massively over-engineered. It involved RSS, RDF and Trackback - the latest cool toys back then. A Google Blog Search for "dear lazyweb" is actually a better way of finding cries for help. If only there were some way of marking a request as resolved, so as to filter it out of the search results.

I suggest appending “Thanks Lazyweb, you’re awesome!” to any resolved post.

I now hope that the LazyWeb, Google and the small world phenomenon will do all the work for me and make the following two links work:

Unresolved LazyWeb requests.

Resolved LazyWeb requests.

They’re both restricted to posts made after today, since the world can’t be expected to know about the new protocol yet. I assume that by tomorrow, everybody will have read this post and be fully briefed. If not, the links will form a handy summary of those who don’t read this website (or at least those who don’t pay attention). Then I’ll get you with my Utu!