tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post112983911692264797..comments2024-03-27T11:42:47.601-04:00Comments on Another Monkey: A sunrise postponedD.B. Echohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01797128570217627410noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post-1129942088451622522005-10-21T20:48:00.000-04:002005-10-21T20:48:00.000-04:00Maybe "Dick" is a little strong. And I suppose I ...Maybe "Dick" is a little strong. And I suppose I could have simply checked the Wikipedia to answer the question "Who the hell is Chris Pirillo anyway?" It was interesting to see the Pirillo Effect in action. (Candyman, Candyman, Candyman...)<BR/><BR/>I would like to extend my congratulations, however. Yes, thanks to Chris Pirillo's call to "Kill Blogspot Already!", Google has decided to take countermeasures against fake blogs. Clearly they hadn't been working on this up until now. Obviously Chris gets the credit for this.<BR/><BR/>But I think I'll stand by my conclusion that Chris Pirillo is a dick. I'll let his own words explain why:<BR/><BR/>"Kill Blogspot Already!!! "<BR/>OK, when you've got as much exposure as this guy does - and he has a lot - any call to action is going to be echoed by a lot of folks. In later posts Chris will claim that he was trying to encourage Google to address the problem of what he calls "spam blogs". But that's not what this title says.<BR/><BR/>"Blogspot has become nothing but a crapfarm."<BR/>If nothing else had been said, this alone would have earned him the title of Dick. I blog on Blogspot. So do a lot of other people, including many of the people I link to. "Nothing but a crapfarm"? There's not much wiggle room there, boy. You've declared all of our blogs crap. Screw you.<BR/><BR/>"(T)he 1% "legitimate" minority."<BR/>OK, someone as plugged in as Chris Pirillo must have some data to back this claim up. 99% of the blogs on Blogspot (which, remember, is "nothing but a crapfarm") are illegitimate. And how do you define legitimacy? Show us your data, show us your judgement criteria.<BR/><BR/>Or is this just hyperbole, just spouting off, shooting from the hip? If so - if this is, as he later tries to cast it, a biting satire in the manner of Swift's "Modest Proposal" - well, it falls flat. It comes across as a call to "Kill Blogspot Already!" That's the way I read it, and I'm sure that's the way many of Chris Pirillo's propellerhead minions read it. And maybe everything that he has written should be taken with a grain of salt - it might also be hyperbole.<BR/><BR/>Chris, you owe us an apology. Me. Lauren. Rima. Anne. Siobhan. Katie. SuperG. Lisa. Puppetdude. Dee. Teigra. All the others whose blogs are hosted by a service you've declared to be "nothing but a crapfarm". There can't be that many of us - "1% legitimate" can't amount to that many blogs.<BR/><BR/>Now, I don't expect an apology to me. Frankly, I don't care. But you owe the others an apology, many of whom don't even know that you insulted them. I check their blogs ever day. Post it in the comments of their latest entry. If I see you doing this, you'll be a little bit along the way to not being a dick.<BR/><BR/>Then use the "Next Blog" button for an hour. If you find fake blogs, flag them. If you find real ones, apologize to them, too.<BR/><BR/>And post the apology on your site. You reach a lot of people. You've insulted a lot of people. You need to let them know that you're not really a dick.D.B. Echohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01797128570217627410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post-1129910019312520742005-10-21T11:53:00.000-04:002005-10-21T11:53:00.000-04:00You're right. I'm a dick. I'm a really big dick. T...You're right. I'm a dick. I'm a really big dick. That's why Google did what they did on the 18th.<BR/><BR/>http://buzz.blogger.com/2005/10/spam-barriers.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07795226492107831614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post-1129904669681037002005-10-21T10:24:00.000-04:002005-10-21T10:24:00.000-04:00Betz, I'm not saying that anybody should avoid Chl...Betz, I'm not saying that anybody should avoid Chloe's blog. I go there every day. But if you have a weak and tired computer like mine, you might want to make it your last stop before you log off and reboot.<BR/><BR/>And I don't think Chris Pirillo is necessarily s "friend" of Chloe. She's a lot more attuned to the world of blogging than I am, so she probably just knows his site from past encounters. And it's not like I said that this guy is a dick. But I will now. After careful consideration and several re-readings, I think Chris Pirillo is a propellerhead technosnob dick.D.B. Echohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01797128570217627410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6988729.post-1129893636697104852005-10-21T07:20:00.000-04:002005-10-21T07:20:00.000-04:00I have a big smile on my face whilst reading your ...I have a big smile on my face whilst reading your blog this morning Harold. I could actually hear you saying all you wrote about Chloe and her friend.<BR/><BR/>I shall avoid thier blogs.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com