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- thestorey, on 10/12/2007, -6/+341. Thier lives mean *****
2. They don't know how to actualy code a website.
3. Most of them LIE ALOT.
4. They are in a secret society that controlls the worlds recources.
5. They know where Osama is.
6. They can devide by zero but will not teach others.
7. They don't actualy look like they do in the pictures.
8. They arent really important.
9. They make the Stupid lists just to piss people off.
10. They really do hate Macs - hipnerd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24This story sucks. I'd explain why, but if you can't see it for yourself, there's nothing I can do to help you.
- milocat, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22thank you, "holier-than-thou internet dweller." you are better than me now because i didn't read that story on a timely basis like you did. seriously, it's not a time-dependent story. yes, some stories are lame as ***** to read when they're old. this has value and is "somewhat" timeless in nature.
my suggestion, don't be a hater, relax, drink green tea. it'll calm you down and help you post more thoughtful responses on future digg stories. you don't need to angry or an elitest just to get your point across. - MrSarcasm, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17"I'm not a real reporter"
Hmm, thanks for telling me that! Because since now, I though every wordpress dude is a journalist! But good thing there's this story on this digg that will guide my through this intenetZ!
/sarcasm - mt066, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11"1 Hardly anybody reads me."
"2 The more companies pay me, the more I like their stuff."
"3 Did I mention I'm not a real reporter?"
and so on...
Oh god. Looks like someone got burned by some blogger recently. Or maybe you aren't climbing the company ladder as fast as they dreamed and these bloggers are stealing your thunder? - bIuebonics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8and the future isn't blogs thankfully.
- TheActionCombo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The word blog pisses me off.
- betobeto, on 10/12/2007, -3/+811. "I'm a virgin".
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7What a ***** ***** article. Nothing but baseless FUD. This seriously pisses me off. I can't imagine anyone putting up with a blog exhibiting even one of the symptoms purported in this tripe ass list.
In my almost year and a half on Digg I think this is the first article I have buried as inaccurate. - 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Don't forget that all bloggers belong to the Skull and Bones Society...
- pbgswd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5the dude is light on facts, and downright wrong #4
- cinnix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Kevin was sold as soon as you mentioned green tea :)
As for this list, it sounds like the author is pulling these points out of his arse. - FairlyStupid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well, blogs are for the large part, fairly stupid.
With all the other entertainment on the net, there's like 50 well known blogs out of 55 million created. And no one really cares. Not even you. - 4degrees, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41. that its not even worth THEIR time...
- LordRama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41. "Hardly anybody reads me."
Because when I read Joe Shmoe #2768's blog on wordpress.com, I automatically assume he has a rabid readership.
2. "The more companies pay me, the more I like their stuff."
Yeah, it's called ADVERTISING. Holy *****, what a novel idea. It's not like it's done on the radio and TV all the time or anything.
3. "Did I mention I'm not a real reporter?"
Oops. I thought Joe Shmoe #2768 was a reporter also. My bad.
4. "I might infect your computer with a virus."
Yeah, blogs are obviously the only forms of websites that can carry viruses. Regular websites? Nope. No viruses here. Just stay away from blogs man, they're EVIL.
5. "I'm revealing company secrets."
I guess all bloggers are working for high-profile companies who have to worry about industrial espionage. Hey Joe Shmoe #2768, even though your profile says you're 14, you're revealing company secrets!
6. "Just because my name's on it doesn't mean I wrote it."
Don't care. Besides, this phenomenon isn't really unique to the blogging world. This list also has the pretense that it applies to *all* bloggers, not just the extremely small minority that claim they're high-paid CEOs. You might do a list called "10 Things Novelists Aren't Telling You" and include something about novelists who write about anthropomorphic unicorns with dietary problems.
7. "My blog is just a stepping stone to bigger and better things."
Who cares? I mean really, if their blog manages to land them a well-paying job, then I say go for it.
8. "I can control what you see on the Internet."
I thought this article was supposed to tell me things I didn't already know.
9. "Blogging just about ruined my life."
They mention a few isolated cases and suddenly every blogger is going to get fired because of something they may or may not have posted on their blog? Going by the stunning new information revealing in #1, the likelihood of a potential employer actually reading an employee's blog is extremely small.
10. "I'm already obsolete."
Wow, blog posts went down from 1.6 million to 1.3 million? Look out bloggers, you're obsolete!
The plain fact is, many people are far better writers than they are speakers, and thus probably wouldn't want a podcast because they wouldn't be good at it. Besides, the advent of film and TV didn't make books and newspapers obsolete, did they? No, I have a feeling that, until humans evolve telepathy, information transmitted in *gasp* written form will be around for a long time.
This list fails. - milocat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3it's hard for bloggers to look at this objectively. i agree #4 is pretty lame...
but the fact is, there's a lot of truth to these ESPECIALLY with tech blogs. - earvolution, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1maybe newspapers and televsion news shows should stop taking ads since there must be some editorial influence with ALL that money flowing to them, right? Easily more in a single day then even the big bloggers see in a month!
- chrisnixon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+111. They write stupid baseless stories in the hope that they'll get attention for their financial website to sell you stuff.
- jcaino, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4yea, so this guy is blogging this, right?
so he MUST conform to all of his listed reasons.
what a tool. don't project your own ***** life on others. - jdogg707, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6I know I write my blog for fun, not because I expect to make money off of it or because I have delusions of grandeur in becoming a professional journalist. While this article might have meant well, it came across as another senseless attack on bloggers from so called "professional journalists". Why can't we all just get along?
- Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7Why does the author care about 2-10 if 1 is true? Anyway, I blog (http://johnbokma.com/ ), got on average 14,000 visitors a day and am not handing out viruses, getting paid to blog (directly, I do have AdSense though), am not claiming to be a journalist, nor putting my name under stuff I didn't write. Since I try to avoid copy-paste blogging most of the content is written by me.
I do believe it's a stepping stone. It has extended my network, given me new customers, and I make currently over 700 USD/month which is not ruining my life (it pays the rent at the moment, and food, and more).
As for controlling, yes, I am able to get a lot of my articles for certain keywords in the top 30 or even top 10 results of Google. That's not my problem and if it's a problem it's up to Google to fix.
As for blogging being over the top, who cares? It's like saying that the Internet is over the top because even my mom is using it.
Silly rant. He got his 5 minutes of fame. I rather have 1 minute of fame daily :-D. - mbthompson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1How many profiles do you think he checked before he said that?
- sp4rky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1God FTW!
- essjay, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4I that just points out how stupid this list is. What about the real reporters that write their own blogs. There are blogs on most newspaper websites as well as places like the BBC. I think his guy is just bitter because everything in the list is true about him. Don't tarnish all bloggers with the same brush.
- cdmwebs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Zing!! Sounds like Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons, no?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+7Most don't know that ALOT is not a word.
(I mean, come on! Is 2nd grade spelling that tough a subject for the average digger?) - fant0m, on 10/12/2007, -7/+61. Sex is very limited, if not non-existent, in a blogger's life.
- fullphaser, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Let Me summarize.
1.) I am not as popular on the internet as I say I am, if you read me I get more internet credz
2.) The more I get payed the less objective I become, you might say I'm you know in it for the money
3.) I'm not a journalist.... well gosh, you know because people with college degree's in journalism just love to have their lives reduced to a blog
4.) Bloggers, and apparently, god forbid, the blogs they write on like most other websites can contain a virus *shocker*
5.) I might get pissed at my job and let out some insider info, but because I'm a blogger this is somehow different from the rest of the interbutt.
6.) I might have gotten this delicious copy pasted article from someone else.
7.) After I'm done with this blog whoring I might move on to a real job.
8.) By spamming.. I mean using SEO tactics I can give myself more internet creds on google
9.) Damn I wasted a good part of my life on the internet.
10.) A blog is not web 2.0 don't tell anyone
or...
1.) The internet lies, surprise!
Seriously go back to noob school, I would hope none of these tips came off as any bit of a surprise to the digg audience, And if they did go back to the real world nooblet. I would like to thank captain Obvious for writing this wonderful piece. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1A lot of the sites this silly blog mentions are note BLOGS. Why do people insist on claling ALL web sites blogs now ? Badjocks.com is not a blog. It is a web site.
- dominasian, on 10/12/2007, -10/+911. I probably have a huge porn collection
most of these were stupid so i thought id help - lostinnowhere, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Hey...This guy got his article posted here, and is getting himself some hits.
Yeah,..And maybe 1/2 of it is Bulls**t. But frankly,...Who cares?
I'm one of those people that post blogs. And, I am not a reporter. But, I'll tell you this...My experience with reporters is that they do not write much of what they get into print. They take press releases sent to them, make a phone call to the writer of the release, discuss it with them, do a little rewording, and put it in print... I know,...I've done it.
I also put up some blogs that simply have basic information on some subjects. And yes, there are a couple where I got only 1 (one) correspondence thanking me for the information. But, you know what?...Those are the people that I wrote it for...And, those single "thank you" notes were satisfactory enough.
Isn't this what the Internet is all about?...Each of us as individuals having the ability to make a public statement, share information, communicate with anyone anywhare in the world. And, if it effects only one other person...Hey!.. I gave something to someone!
And, if I'm the only one reading it...So what?...At least I'm practicing communicating....And if it is not good enough to get attention...I've learned something to improve my next one.
- AdebisiTheGamer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I think Bloggers should be considered real reporters. Who the ***** are you to tell me where I get my news is not the "approved channel"?
If you gather news, write it up in a semifactual fashion, and distribute it to the public, how is that not being a reporter?
Just another mass media outlet putting out an article to try and discredit independant citizen journalism. I'm sorry, just because it is a blog does not mean it is not a news medium. - Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Here's #11: Worthwhile content.
- MrSarcasm, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3I guess I need someone to guide *ME* through *MY* keyboard too. :|
- bIuebonics, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1"easy to disprove with a tracking service or even Google AdSense."
is that why google's ceo made the comment? - devzer0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I feel sorry for the author. The future is coming, and he has no idea what to do about it.
- spacerat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0buried as inaccurate.
#3 I''ve never seen a blogger fraudulently posing as a "real reporter."
#4 I've read hundreds of blogs and never gotten a virus. In fact, has anyone gotten a virus from a blog, ever?
#8 "I can control what you see on the Internet." LOL. Evil megalomaniacs the lot of them. this one was stupid.
#10 there may be signs of a slowdown, but even if they're going to be obsolete, they aren't yet. Not true. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3uhhhh DUH???
- mbthompson, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Good grief this is lame, and as far as I can tell, far from the norm of what the average blogger does. As far as "the blogger" being the only reader, easy to disprove with a tracking service or even Google AdSense.
- dbarefoot, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Wow, best Digg bait ever.
- cressfore, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0so many blog haters out there - as if the ability to publish and disseminate content online imbued 'blogs' with some mystical force.
- justdanielegrl, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0John Edwards:The Bilderberg Candidate/SKULL BONES (Revised)
by URI DOWBENKO
When you own all the ponies, you don't really care who
wins the race. So it is with the US presidential
elections in 2004.
After his triumphant appearance at the Bilderberg
Conference in Italy even the New York Times was
gushing at the performance of John Edwards. The
selection of John "Bilderberger" Edwards by John
"Skull and Bones" Kerry was inevitable, as the secret
societies own all the candidates in this "election."
This time around George "Skull and Bones" Bush is not
favored by the elite as his father George H. W. Bush
was replaced by Bill Clinton in 1992.
The New York Times wrote -- "Several people pointed to
the secretive and exclusive Bilderberg conference of
some 120 people that this year drew the likes of Henry
A. Kissinger, Melinda Gates and Richard A. Perle to
Stresa, Italy, in early June, as helping win Mr.
Kerry's heart. Mr. Edwards spoke so well in a debate
on American politics with the Republican Ralph Reed
that participants broke Bilderberg rules to clap
before the end of the session. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2replace "blogger" with "digg user" and you are also correct
- quomen, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2oops..
edit:
wrong topic. - milocat, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1totally agree, but on the flip side of the coin, bloggers launch the same types of attacks against the mainstream media.
- steven401, on 10/12/2007, -12/+4^ I fully agree.
- nelsonjs, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2This was mildly interesting when I read it 6 weeks ago.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3Sizagschwag.
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