Paul Kedrosky says structured blogging will fail because people are lazy. I think it will succeed because people are lazy. Paul is absolutely right about people being lazy; that's why no one bothered to blog before templating apps like Blogger came along and made it easy. It's also why I don't bother to write many book or movie reviews; if it were a simple matter to find book images and ratings icons, create affiliate links and automatically format it all into a blog post thats both aesthetically pleasing for my readers and has the potential to earn me money, I might do it more often (incidentally, this is also a partial response to Greg Yardley's concerns, but it is a start; another part is getting free stuff, which comes directly from being found in new and better ways).

Let's also keep in mind that the current structured blogging stuff is for Wordpress and MT users; in other words, people who are at least not lazy enough to do things like setup their own web servers and blogging software. For it to succeed, structured blogging, microformats, whatever, has to go beyond these platforms and end up in Rotten Tomatoes, Evite, craigslist, Whizspark, etc. (where folks who were too lazy to set up their own blogs are already contributing this stuff right now).

I've read Paul's blog and heard him speak, and he's definetly smarter than me, but I still think structured blogging is meant for the lazy people.