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Bloggers the Tech World's New Elite?
Carl Bialik writes "Wall Street Journal tech columnist Lee Gomes says that the top tech blogs 'aren't part of some proletarian information revolution, but instead have become the tech world's new elite. Reporters for the big mainstream newspapers and magazines, long accustomed to fawning treatment at corporate events, now show up and find that the best seats often go to the A-list bloggers. And living at the front of the velvet rope line means the big bloggers are frequently pitched and wooed. In fact, with the influence peddling universe in this state of flux, it's not uncommon for mainstream reporters, including the occasional technology columnist, to lobby bloggers to include links to their print articles.'"
If all the the WSJ has to write about it a virtual-print article about a virtual-print logging service
I couldn't fail to disagree with you any less.
...totally boring, usually incorrect, massively ignored, whiners...then yes.
Do we know who coined that word? And if so, do we know where he lives? Because I have a great helping of beat-down reserved for the person responsible for it.
Sure, but wait until I have Linux running on my toaster! Maybe I should blog about it...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
OK, we'll be needing a new word for "blog spam". The obvious candidates are blam and splog (or spog). I'll vote for blam! (with the exclamation point). I should register this as a trademark...
Have you read my blog lately?
Agreed.
This journalist is in awe of other supposed journalists' (blogger's) new toy, then procedes to overstate the issue.
In other news, according to Cookie Monster, the cookie has been declared "best food ever." When pressed on which particular cookie was superior he declined any further comment.
Am I open minded towards open source, or closed minded towards closed source?
Did you accidently space in the wrong place?
It looks like you typed "the masses"; are you sure you didn't mean to put the space *after* the 'm' instead of before it?
-- Terry
Really? Excellent! That's good to hear.
They'll find this very useful:
User-agent: * /
Disallow:
I hope you do better then I did, I used a cd-writer and an industrial laser, but it didn't work out well:* Runs to toaster, inserts bread slices, runs back to desktop *Ok, I can burn custom tux images on my bread, but next time I wouldn't use a single speed writer anymore.
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
Word.
Often wrong but never in doubt.
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