Dvorak on Cluetrain and Blogging

John Dvorak goes after Cluetrain and blogging. His closely reasoned argument is “Isn’t this dumb?” and his evidence is “Hey, I’m cynical and they’re not!”

Fun reading. For example:

In fact the brown-nosing that goes on between bloggers singing each others’ praises makes the worst office kiss-ups look tame by comparison. I mention this anomaly since these Cluetrain folks all believe the opposite to be true. Somehow networking like this, according to the Cluetrainees, reveals truth—when in fact it supports and forces the worst kind of conformist behavior. Try to find a blog that is ever critical of another blog. I’ve never seen it.

Yeah, we’re generally guilty of trying to find what’s good in what other bloggers are writing. (Wasn’t the original point of blogging to recommend sites?) But maybe Dvorak should read a little a more before he announces bloggers never criticize one another. What a hoot.

Mike Sanders and Halley Suitt blog excellent comments on Dvorak. (Oops, excuse me, there I go being positive again! I meant to say: Mike Sanders and Halley Suitt are full of shit! My God do they suck! I hate them!)

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