The (old) Licquia Family Blog
This is the old blog site, powered by a simple blogging system called Blosxom. It's here to keep old links from breaking, and for whatever historic interest might remain.
Here's the current site.
This is the old blog site, powered by a simple blogging system called Blosxom. It's here to keep old links from breaking, and for whatever historic interest might remain.
Here's the current site.
A guy named Simon Dumenco gets all superior about blogs and TiVo. Doc and Dave get bent out of shape about it.
I'm wondering what kick Simon is on. I didn't watch a single episode of American Idol (despite peer pressure). Unlike Simon, I didn't feel any weird compulsion to lie to my friends about it in order to impress them. Nor do I feel any strange desire to use blogs as Cliff's Notes on important issues of the day, whether to impress my friends or otherwise. Unlike him, I actually clicked on the link from Doc and read his screed, doing him the favor he admits refusing to do for others.
Regardless, my question to Doc and Dave is: why should we care? The guy's own article is sufficient to condemn him. Blogs don't need careful vigilance against powerful critics; they're already too big for some well-placed flack to kill. Let the Simons of the world parody themselves in public.
Don't get me wrong: I'm willing to be convinced that Simon isn't a waste of time. But not until he responds, in public, to one of us, and actually links to the story he's responding to. (And not one of those auto-link things where he says something like "Doc Searls (doc.weblogs.com)" and expects the machine to make the dot-com-words blue for him.) That would prove that he actually had a ticket for the cluetrain, as it were. But it doesn't help to argue with him over his need of a ticket; just kick him off the train and head out of the station, already.
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