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"Nibby" (nibby68) 11/25/2014 at 15:14 • Filed to: None

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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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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Nibby 11/25/2014 at 15:16

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"and 1 other" lol

ACESandEIGHTS > Nibby 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.

Nibby > ACESandEIGHTS 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.

Racescort666 > ACESandEIGHTS 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.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ACESandEIGHTS 11/25/2014 at 15:27

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Metcalfe's Law, don't you know. HURRRRRRRR

ACESandEIGHTS > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 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.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ACESandEIGHTS 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.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 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.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 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".

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 11/25/2014 at 16:19

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Precisely.