Comments on: Tech Bloggers http://listics.com/200801093860 Frank Paynter's Voice and Vision... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:18:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Charles Follymacher http://listics.com/200801093860#comment-52299 Charles Follymacher Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:52:21 +0000 http://listics.com/200801093860#comment-52299 p.s. <blockquote>"Rubel and Scoble are simple self-aggrandizement engines, tedious and boring at their best."</blockquote> In full agreement. p.s.
“Rubel and Scoble are simple self-aggrandizement engines, tedious and boring at their best.”

In full agreement.

]]> By: Charles Follymacher http://listics.com/200801093860#comment-52298 Charles Follymacher Sun, 13 Jan 2008 18:49:32 +0000 http://listics.com/200801093860#comment-52298 Clever, sure. Insightful, well, to each his own I guess. Anyway, you're a better man than I, Franko. I tend to invest in those I like/respect. If a guy goes too far over the line for me, I'll always view the rest of the stuff half-heartedly, always prepared for the next blitzkrieg on my sensibilities (which, if the person is at core an asshole, is <i>sure</i> to come at some point). And then I can't really enjoy it, so why bother. Surely things haven't gotten so bad in the tech universe that we're left with Feldman to carry the banner for clever insight? That's really a cryin shame if that's the case. That might be a sign of a tech bubble about to pop if i ever saw one. That "Tech Nigga" incident was only 6mths ago and the apology too bullshit for me to even attempt compartmentalizing. YMMV. That's a pattern with the guy, insult then "apologize." You're right that he's def self-aware and intentional. p.s. looking for good insight, <a href="http://blog.pmarca.com/" rel="nofollow">Andreessen</a> works for me. Clever, sure. Insightful, well, to each his own I guess. Anyway, you’re a better man than I, Franko. I tend to invest in those I like/respect. If a guy goes too far over the line for me, I’ll always view the rest of the stuff half-heartedly, always prepared for the next blitzkrieg on my sensibilities (which, if the person is at core an asshole, is sure to come at some point). And then I can’t really enjoy it, so why bother.

Surely things haven’t gotten so bad in the tech universe that we’re left with Feldman to carry the banner for clever insight? That’s really a cryin shame if that’s the case. That might be a sign of a tech bubble about to pop if i ever saw one.

That “Tech Nigga” incident was only 6mths ago and the apology too bullshit for me to even attempt compartmentalizing. YMMV. That’s a pattern with the guy, insult then “apologize.” You’re right that he’s def self-aware and intentional.

p.s. looking for good insight, Andreessen works for me.

]]> By: Frank Paynter http://listics.com/200801093860#comment-52276 Frank Paynter Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:27:56 +0000 http://listics.com/200801093860#comment-52276 Yup, I think he's clever and insightful, Charles. he often cracks me up. I also think he goes way over the line from time to time. Have to trust myself to be able to filter that. Seriously, his black tech blogger thing way back when was embarrassing and unfunny. I don't intend to hold it against him forever. I embrace about half of what I see over there at 1938Media, which is way more than the hit rate that Scoble gets from me. Or Rubel. Dvorak is his own animal. Usually when I read him it's because someone else pointed to him saying he has written something particularly egregious. Often I don't find those things so egregious. I think Feldman is self-aware and intentional, so his work is layered with that intentionality, and often good. I sense that same thing about Dvorak. Rubel and Scoble are simple self-aggrandizement engines, tedious and boring at their best. Yup, I think he’s clever and insightful, Charles. he often cracks me up. I also think he goes way over the line from time to time. Have to trust myself to be able to filter that. Seriously, his black tech blogger thing way back when was embarrassing and unfunny. I don’t intend to hold it against him forever.

I embrace about half of what I see over there at 1938Media, which is way more than the hit rate that Scoble gets from me. Or Rubel. Dvorak is his own animal. Usually when I read him it’s because someone else pointed to him saying he has written something particularly egregious. Often I don’t find those things so egregious.

I think Feldman is self-aware and intentional, so his work is layered with that intentionality, and often good. I sense that same thing about Dvorak. Rubel and Scoble are simple self-aggrandizement engines, tedious and boring at their best.

]]> By: Charles Follymacher http://listics.com/200801093860#comment-52271 Charles Follymacher Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:26:24 +0000 http://listics.com/200801093860#comment-52271 Oh, lawdy, don't tell me you're actually rooting for this idiot, Frank. Please don't tell me you think <a href="http://valleywag.com/tech/loren-feldman/technigga-and-the-don-imus-of-silicon-valley-287091.php" rel="nofollow">this guy is clever</a>. Droll attention-seeking bloviators of the Dvorak/Scoble/Rubel kind at least know where to draw the line. Oh, lawdy, don’t tell me you’re actually rooting for this idiot, Frank. Please don’t tell me you think this guy is clever.

Droll attention-seeking bloviators of the Dvorak/Scoble/Rubel kind at least know where to draw the line.

]]> By: alan herrell - the head lemur http://listics.com/200801093860#comment-52249 alan herrell - the head lemur Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:19:06 +0000 http://listics.com/200801093860#comment-52249 Scoble is recovering http://www.ravinglunacy.org/index.php/2008/01/07/robert-scoble-internet-crash-test-dummy/ Rubel is doing his annual re-invention. Last year he gave up LinkedIN http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/01/how_to_break_li.html Year before, he was a trendnoid http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/12/2006_trends_to__2.html Maybe next year, he will find his pencil has no lead.... Scoble is recovering
http://www.ravinglunacy.org/index.php/2008/01/07/robert-scoble-internet-crash-test-dummy/

Rubel is doing his annual re-invention.
Last year he gave up LinkedIN
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/01/how_to_break_li.html
Year before, he was a trendnoid
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/12/2006_trends_to__2.html
Maybe next year, he will find his pencil has no lead….

]]> By: Frank Paynter http://listics.com/200801093860#comment-52216 Frank Paynter Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:13:03 +0000 http://listics.com/200801093860#comment-52216 I'm not sure, but I don't think the march into Poland is scheduled until 1939. We can check with 1938Media, see what they know. Maybe it is time to dust off the RFB xmitters and start beep-beep-a-deeping to occupied mindspace and all the chips at sea. I’m not sure, but I don’t think the march into Poland is scheduled until 1939. We can check with 1938Media, see what they know.

Maybe it is time to dust off the RFB xmitters and start beep-beep-a-deeping to occupied mindspace and all the chips at sea.

]]> By: xian http://listics.com/200801093860#comment-52206 xian Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:01:10 +0000 http://listics.com/200801093860#comment-52206 You forgot Poland. Or is it did I mean is it time to dust off Radio Free Blogistan and resume broadcasting into occupied mindspace? You forgot Poland.

Or is it did I mean is it time to dust off Radio Free Blogistan and resume broadcasting into occupied mindspace?

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