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Article: Opinion - Shut up until you have something to say. David Tebbutt has had it up to here with blogs - especially the reams of irrelevant and plain wrong rubbish that the so-called A-list post between occasional gems.
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- Information World Review
- Article date:
- November 16, 2005
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I've spent a year deeply immersed in the public blog world and, frankly, I'm sick of it.
So-called A-list bloggers spout whatever's on their minds, just because they're A-list bloggers and it's what they do. They can't stop because their identity is totally bound up in the blog, never mind all the millions of hours of other people's time they gobble up daily. For every gem they post, there is a lot of space-filling.
Challenge these bloggers on a factual error and they will airily suggest that it doesn't matter, the blogosphere is self-correcting. Yeah, right. Having picked up and believed, some astonishing claim, who on earth is going to revisit the ...