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Web 2.0 Bubble May Be Worst Burst Yet

Posted by Zonk on from the not-the-bubble dept.

athloi writes with a link to an editorial by John Dvorak over at the PC Magazine site. Rather than his usual tilting at windmills, Dvorak turns his attention to possibility of another big internet economy 'pop': "Every single person working in the media today who experienced the dot-com bubble in 1999 to 2000 believes that we are going through the exact same process and can expect the exact same results — a bust. It's déjà vu all over again. Each succeeding bubble has been worse than its predecessor. Thus nobody is actually able to spot the cycle, since it just looks like a continuum. I can assure you that after this next collapse, nobody will think of the dot-com bubble as anything other than a prelude." It certainly seems like another burst is imminent; will this one be worse than the original, or have less of an impact?

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  1. Re:Is... by Heftklammerdosierer! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quick, someone mod TFA -1, Dvorak!

  2. Dvorak, DVORAK!! Bwahaha ha ha... by crovira · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you believe anything that comes out of his cloaca, I've got a bridge to sell you...

    Once again, Dvorak doesn't know what is happening or what people are doing with the Web.

    I have never met anyone as consistently wrong as Dvorak.

    How he hangs onto his job is beyond me.

    Then again, I think anything he would actually write for is probably Rupert Murdoch style fish wrapper.

    Yeah, John C. tell me again how Apple should be chopped up and sold off to enhance share-holder value.

    You stupid cunt. Blinkered, Phillistine pig ignoramous.

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  3. Dvorak Says... by MadMacSkillz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Once I saw it was Dvorak, all I read was "blah blah blah." I guess John got tired of writing articles to piss off Mac users and decided to try a bigger crowd...

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  4. Re:Does anyone listen to him any more? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    He's an idiot, paid by the page hit.


    Zonk?
  5. Re:Does anyone listen to him any more? by Hijacked+Public · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's an idiot, paid by the page hit And yet people on Slashdot still quote his articles.
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  6. He can't retire by paladinwannabe2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    He invested all his savings in tulip bulbs.

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  7. Re:Does anyone listen to him any more? by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wasn't the CD-ROM bubble artificially propped up by AOL for a number of years?

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  8. Re:Does anyone listen to him any more? by sammy+baby · · Score: 4, Funny

    And yet people on Slashdot still quote his articles.


    True, but be fair: the vast majority of Slashdotters aren't gonna read the article. So, no extra ad revenue for him!

    (In Slashdot's defense: reading the article would be counterproductive.)