I recently visited some of my “essential” links you see towards the end of my sidebar. The content of one has seriously disappointed me and is being dropped from my list. I feel a bit deceived by its descriptive title, “Converging worlds of IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband.” I read a couple nice posts at the time I put it on my list thinking this might be of interest to anyone like me in the telecommunications field currently involved in convergence, triple-play, IMS, VoIP, etc.
I was wrong. I recently read the last couple posts on this blog. Here are some excerpts:
Post Title– Revealed! Three reasons why Digg is a crock
… Third, what does the public know anyway? I mean, this is a public that generates giant box office receipts for trashy movies, high ratings to dopey tv shows and huge sales for thuggish rappers and formulaic, hat-wearing country singers.
So the author considers himself not just an expert on society’s general level of intellect, but what is a “trashy” movie, a “dopey” tv show, and who are “thuggish rappers and formulaic country singers.”
The author might have retained a little credibility by stopping at 2 reasons. Yeah, I know it’s unlikely any reader would give him credit for having any real expertise or inside knowledge in any of these genres… But it leads one to question his knowledge on convergence, too, so I looked at the next post…
Post Title– MoveOn.org’s “net neutrality” petition is naive and silly: Pulver’s Save the Internet initiative is not
… So if you are a Rep. Joe Barton – the telco’s pet, and you see a petition hit your office’s email servers that are signed by members of a “liberal” organization, are you going to think, “that may cost me votes this November, and gee, they may have a point. I need to revisit this issue.
No, no and h*ll no. The Joe Barton’s of the world are going to think, “there goes that liberal MoveOn.org, wanting legislation that inhibits competition.”
Stop all legislation that crimps the abiity for your contributors to do anything they want. That’s what is really at play here.”
Like you I’m starting to see a trend here. The author, a proclaimed industry expert who has actually written a couple IT books, appears in his blog to be little more than an aspiring misanthropic radio show host fond of making broad generalizations regarding culture and politics. In the end, it’s his blog and he’s free to use it to say whatever he wants. I just feel the blog’s title and description are misleading, since it is really just a socio-political editorial blog on an internet interest platform.
I have nothing against editorial blogs, but I do have a problem with socio-political blogs under the guise of technology. Oh, there are nuggets of technology and innovation in the blog, but the author comes off as much more the literary hack than hacker.
Obviously, the blog is off my list, and I’ll be going through the rest immediately.
