Robert Scoble makes an excellent point about how to deal with people: link to them, even if they disagree with you and loathe your company:
Sean Gallagher: "Blogging, is, at some level, the greatest ego-satisfaction engine created by modern technology."He also asks whether gateway bloggers have an obligation to be balanced. I don't think they do, but I think the ones that are balanced will get more readers than ones who only stick on one side, or the other.
That's why I link to competitors and "ABM" (Anything But Microsoft) sites and weblogs. You'll notice that the ABM sites don't link to me. That means you can learn more here than over there.
Over at Howard Dean's blog, they use the appearance of anti-Dean trolls to spark contributions.
What self serving crap. I don't link to Scoble because he doesn't ever have an original content worth linking to. If he said something interesting, maybe, otherwise I can get my M$-oriented BS from lots of places.
-Russ
Posted by: Russ at October 9, 2003 01:06 AMRussell, you use the word "crap" rather than dissecting and providing a critique that can be responded to. Who is self-serving? Me? Scoble? You? Also, self-serving is hyphenated. Get your crap right, at least.
You look for content in links, not the thoughts about content from the bloggers you count on? How then, do you judge the value of blogger as a filter? Purely on what they point to? Fine, if that's the case, read a newspaper. My consumption of blogs is predicated on a very different standard: What the blogger adds to my perspective, by challenging my assumptions and by supporting my assumptions mindlessly, which allows me to reflect on my thinking rather than see them as crap dealers.
I'll follow up on your other posting here, too -- I think it is you that didn't make yourself clear about Orlowski, because you seemed to be making the point I was agreeing with rather than my having intentionally misrepresented your point.
Regardless of your feelings about Orlowski, whom I've lambasted and praised more than a couple times, do you have something to say besides "this is crap?" in regards to things you don't agree with? I mean, seriously, how about actually discussing the point I made instead of using my site to hurl shit? I've always thought your blog quite good, usually well-reasoned.
Mitch
Posted by: Mitch Ratcliffe at October 9, 2003 06:47 AM