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"Blogging is a form of vanity publishing: You can dress it up in fancy terms, call it
'paradigm shifting' or a 'disruptive technology', the truth is that blogs consist of senseless
teenage waffle. Adopting the blogger lifestyle is the literary equivalent of attaching
tinselly-sprinkles to the handlebars of your bicycle. In the world of blogging '0 Comments'
is an unambiguous statistic that means absolutely nobody cares. The awful truth about
blogging is that there are far more people who write blogs than actually read blogs."
- Stodge.org, The Personal Memoirs of Randi Mooney, posted on May 5, 2005, (14)
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![]() 11/25/2014 at 15:16 |
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"and 1 other" lol
![]() 11/25/2014 at 15:17 |
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Ah, 2005, back when there were still newspapers. That blogging thing is nowheresville. The internet is a fad.
![]() 11/25/2014 at 15:24 |
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He does have some valid points that there are tons and tons of blogs that have useless information on them.
![]() 11/25/2014 at 15:26 |
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A while back (as in the early 90s) there were a bunch of people that wrote to Dear Abby (or maybe it was Anne Landers, or they're the same person, whatever) about the Internet and she said exactly the same thing. "It's a fad for lonely people." It kind of made my skin crawl considering how ubiquitous it is to pretty much every tech field now. Like, if we lose our internet connection at work, we go home.
![]() 11/25/2014 at 15:27 |
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Metcalfe's Law, don't you know. HURRRRRRRR
![]() 11/25/2014 at 15:38 |
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Haha, wow. I
love
early prognostication on the effect of the internet. It's comical.
You would
never
buy your electronics over the internet! That's Circuit City's job—to ship them to a big store that you can conveniently drive to. You'll never see the big electronics store go away.
![]() 11/25/2014 at 15:43 |
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This wasn't even *that* early. Former Enron Financial Advisor Krugman here was pontificating in, IIRC, 1998. "Krugtron the Invincible" as he calls himself is almost jaw-droppingly vincible on a regular basis.
![]() 11/25/2014 at 16:11 |
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In a way, I would say he is right, but he still doesn't know what he is talking about.
Trying to put down the internet by comparing it to a fax machine? The fax machine was HUGE.
![]() 11/25/2014 at 16:12 |
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It's a piquant bouquet of fail. "This internet thing will be as useless as the telegraph, sez I".
![]() 11/25/2014 at 16:19 |
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Precisely.