Does Squidoo Suck?

What's good in Squidoo: you can collect all info on one topic, including shopping links, other links, your own opinion (most important), and even maybe some helpful comments (highly improbable), in one place. For your own future reference.
For people such as me, who probably have undiagnosed and untreated Attention Deficit Whatever, who get interested, nay, obsessed, with one silly topic or another, "it's like life changing, man!", and then in a few days get distracted by equally awesome topic, and so ad infinitum, this feature is extremely useful.
I tried to use my blog for this, it's called "Passing Interest", but it's annoying to have to read yards of your own blog about all those so-last-week topics until you find something you vaguely remember was sort of cool.

What's not so good in Squidoo. To tell you the truth, money here sucks (for me). All those lenses on monetization and whatnot are boring. I made 5 dollars during my first 3 months here. And I couldn't withdraw it through PayPal anyway because Lithuania is not getting that kind of PayPal service yet.
All those crazy people running around Squidoo, screaming MAKE MONEY, well, they suck too. But as long as I stay in well-lit areas, I feel safe.
If you spam my guestbooks, I'll go after you, though. We got tools for that now, remember?

Self-publishing and focused info good, money BAAA-AAA-AAAD!
Lather, rinse, repeat.

So you see, there was a big internet buzz about Squidoo failing, back in May 2006. Many people talked about it just to attract attention to themselves by talking about something that everyone else was talking about.
Then it (mostly) went away.

Then, in July 2007, it came back. Why? Because traffic disappeared (fell by 75% in some cases and by none at all in some other cases). Then we saw panic among some lensmasters and pledges of devotion from other lensmasters.

Then Squidoo cracked down on spam, hard, and reassured the frightened squids that all will be well. Some PR was also issued.

Some bloggers also took the opportunity to talk about Squidoo, comparing and promoting their own pathetic attempts at web2.0, again.
Let's just remember that there's no such thing as bad publicity.

For more information on Squidoo's awesometasticness go read Squidblog and Squid University (or at least I assume that's what SquidU means; that's why I didn't go there for the first month of my squidding; I thought it was pompous and boring).

See, I got bored with this whole topic already (or to be more exact, I got distracted by the prospect of the nice sunny evening waiting outside).

Squidoo sucks only a bit, and only for some people, and then only in some areas. And it will all be fixed in due time (maybe even the design will change), because with strange aeons even death may die, and then all will be well and all will be well and all manner of things will be well.