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yeah, been busy as hell, but i’ve come up for air to quickly vent about something that is really tearing me up inside (sound of me choking back tears) - tons of talented writers wasting their lives away writing about every single irrelevant thing that elgoog does (”new reply button in calendar, read all about”), and worse, hundreds of others picking up on this worthless shit and recycling into the blogosphere…isn’t there anything else to write about? ever heard of oracle, sun, microsoft, dell, hp, intel, cisco, amazon, ebay? any of these ring a bell?

take a look at something for me: directions on microsoft…notice something? they get paid thousands of dollars to offer insight, commentary and analysis on microsoft…do you know why? because they’re super smart, have worked for the company, know a lot, have worked for the company and also previously worked for the company and have access to tons of current employees (because they worked for the company)…

nobody offers this for elgoog (yeah, maybe i’ll do it, okay? interested?)…and that’s why they pay for it from the companies that do offer it, for firms like microsoft and dozens of others….unfortunately, with bloggers as journalists, you typically get what you pay for…same goes for apple, where dozens of bloggers spew out ridiculous hypotheticals based on passing whims, at which point dozens of other bloggers waster their time (again) reposting the same baseless assumptions (”apple is making an ipod douche that sings ‘blinded by the light’ while douching“)…again, no former employees, no real contacts, and hence no real insight…

…or worse, some blogger claims to have ‘inside information’ but does not release it (okay, i will not name this dude but you all know who i’m talking about) - clearly proving that bloggers are not at all like journalists, and in turn proving that most bloggers are busy blowing sunshine up the asses of the companies they dream about getting fired from one day…

honestly, there’s absolutely NO real reliability and credibility measurement system that we can all agree upon, so we score and rate and evaluate these resources as we go and internalize the processes (as in, “hmm, he predicted the nano, could he be right about the idouche?”)….so what are we all to do? not sure, but i can think of one thing - and this is for technorati and all of the others like them (including digg) - allow your users to rate and score the actual sources, not just the authors, and don’t worry about fewer stories making it to the front page…

…in the interim, fuck blowing sunshine up elgoog’s ass or any company’s ass, i’ll just call it as i see it, and it won’t be about bullshit like new delete buttons…there’s a reason why people like yours truly go straight to the source when i wanna know shit, and if you want to understand why then spend some time trying to learn a lot about a company through blogs written by outsiders…

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