Forbes Goes After Bloggers

walterbyrd writes "In a recent article, Forbes bashes bloggers big time (forbesdontbug/forbesdontbug)." From the article: "Blogs started a few years ago as a simple way for people to keep online diaries. Suddenly they are the ultimate vehicle for brand-bashing, personal attacks, political extremism and smear campaigns. It's not easy to fight back: Often a bashing victim can't even figure out who his attacker is. No target is too mighty, or too obscure, for this new and virulent strain of oratory. Microsoft has been hammered by bloggers; so have CBS, CNN and ABC News, two research boutiques that criticized IBM's Notes software, the maker of Kryptonite bike locks, a Virginia congressman outed as a homosexual and dozens of other victims--even a right-wing blogger who dared defend a blog-mob scapegoat. " BoingBoing has a long post about the article.

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[alizard]

who makes technology decisions for a business based on Forbes simply isn't competent to make technology decisions, even if his job title is CEO.

One judges the content of a magazine based on what it looks like in areas you know something about, i.e. if you know it to be crap within your field of expertise, it's probably crap outside it, too. Judging from their pro-MS / anti-Open Source articles and advising its readers to file frivolous lawsuits against bloggers, the only good things one can use Forbes for are opposition research, and a gift subscription to a competitor's CTO.