I define the lazy web as a system where by you throw a question out to the masses in hopes that one of them can answer it. So, instead of doing a google query or spending any effort of your own to find the answer you can just have an expert on the topic shoot the answer back to you.
Basically this is easy for both parties. The person with the question does nothing but ask and the mass crowd out there all ignores it unless they can answer it. Only if you already know the answer do you bother shooting out the response. Nobody has to do research and everyone gets to help out everyone else when they can. A win-win!
Or maybe not. First off the lazyweb only works if there is a sufficient mass of people in the cloud your asking your question to and assuming there is at least one person in that crowd who knows the answer to your question. It fails if nobody knows the answer or wosre somene feeds you a bad answer trying to pass it off as valid.
I’ve thrown out my first question to the lazyweb today (how to integrate tumblr posts into the flow of my wordpress blog). Hopefully it works out and I get a good answer because the Google web failed me earlier today.