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Say it: Tech blogs are dumb

Published on 05/10/07
by Zac Echola

Mark Evans has a great post today, and I hope more people stand up and take note:

The blogosphere is an amazing place with great ideas and lots of people willing to get involved in lively conversations. But there’s a dark side to the blogosphere - a place where egos run rampant, the outrageous is becoming a tool to capture attention, and where there’s more bandwagon jumping than original thought.

I hate the echo chamber nature of the blogosphere (and the mere word “blogosphere”) so much, but this bears repeating.

I commented on Mark’s post:

Thank god someone is saying this! I’ve been removing tech blogs left and right from my reader for the past week for the following reasons (in order):

  1. Nerdy pissing matchings
  2. Outrageousness
  3. Facebook posts

I’m instituting a similar policy to my feed subscriptions as I have with email forwards from friends and family:

  • First time you send me something annoying, I’ll let it slide.
  • Second time, you’re getting a written warning.
  • Third time, you’re done and filtered as spam. Sorry, but you’ll have to call me or come over.

Except, I’m at the point right now with tech blogs where I’m skipping steps one and two and just unsubscribing. Sorry, but you’ve all become boring talking heads.

In the past week, my “tech” and “web” folders in Google reader have been trimmed from over 30 feeds to 6–and one of those remaining feeds is Valleywag, which just makes fun of all the egos in Silicon Valley.

The end. Or is it?

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