Andrew Orlowski clearly does it to boost his linkage, as Russell Beattie points out at Joi Ito's site. Jim Moore's analysis is dead-on, both in terms of recognizing that Andrew Orlowski's flames are valuable to one's ranking in the eyes of readers and its essential emptiness, to the degree that through his flaming Orlowski is "major distributor of my [Jim Moore] memes." He's the National Enquirer that makes bloggers infamous.
Orlowski is the paparazzi to the blogosphere, but he shoots at his subjects rather than shooting pics of them with their shirts off. Patterns repeat themselves in every medium.
Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe at October 8, 2003 11:17 AM | TrackBack
Following my referrers... You seriously misunderstood my comments on Joi's post. Was it intentional? Andrew could care less about blog linkage because it does *nothing* for TheReg which gets hundreds of millions of page hits a month anyways.
Jim Moore's analysis is full of crap.
-Russ
Posted by: Russ at October 9, 2003 01:08 AMRussell, I guess I didn't understand or you didn't make yourself clear, but Orlowski isn't concerned about the Reg, he's concerned about his own linkage. It's a star system and if you aren't driving linkage, you are missing the boat.
Posted by: Mitch Ratcliffe at October 9, 2003 06:34 AM