This link has been bookmarked by 6 people . It was first bookmarked on 27 Apr 2008, by Stephanie Booth.
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Stephanie BoothTechmeme is the Short Attention Span Theater of the blogosphere. It’s an echo chamber. It encourages reactive, uncritical thinking. The blogswarm gets outraged by whatever they see on Techmeme, they write down whatever pops into their heads (without che
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30 Mar 08
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27 Mar 08
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kevin whitedIt's hilarious that he's guilty of the same thing he's criticizing (i.e. not reading all the way through a long post, not following a link).
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To be fair, the rest of Zoli’s comment is fairly insightful. But I note that he didn’t actually give his readers a chance to go read what I wrote so they could compare his reaction to my original argument. Instead, he sent them to Techmeme. Ugh. [My mistake. As Zoli points out in the comments, there is a link to my post, but it doesn’t appear until nine paragraphs in. My name is in the second paragraph, and the links there both point to Techmeme,. Apologies to Zoli for getting that part wrong.] Techmeme is the Short Attention Span Theater of the blogosphere. It’s an echo chamber. It encourages reactive, uncritical thinking. The blogswarm gets outraged by whatever they see on Techmeme, they write down whatever pops into their heads (without checking any facts and in most cases without even following the links), and then moves on to the next topic. A "discussion" lasts 24 hours.
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To be fair, the rest of Zoli’s comment is fairly insightful. But I note that he didn’t actually give his readers a chance to go read what I wrote so they could compare his reaction to my original argument. Instead, he sent them to Techmeme. Ugh. [My mistake. As Zoli points out in the comments, there is a link to my post, but it doesn’t appear until nine paragraphs in. My name is in the second paragraph, and the links there both point to Techmeme,. Apologies to Zoli for getting that part wrong.] Techmeme is the Short Attention Span Theater of the blogosphere. It’s an echo chamber. It encourages reactive, uncritical thinking. The blogswarm gets outraged by whatever they see on Techmeme, they write down whatever pops into their heads (without checking any facts and in most cases without even following the links), and then moves on to the next topic. A "discussion" lasts 24 hours.
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To be fair, the rest of Zoli’s comment is fairly insightful. But I note that he didn’t actually give his readers a chance to go read what I wrote so they could compare his reaction to my original argument. Instead, he sent them to Techmeme. Ugh. [My mistake. As Zoli points out in the comments, there is a link to my post, but it doesn’t appear until nine paragraphs in. My name is in the second paragraph, and the links there both point to Techmeme,. Apologies to Zoli for getting that part wrong.] Techmeme is the Short Attention Span Theater of the blogosphere. It’s an echo chamber. It encourages reactive, uncritical thinking. The blogswarm gets outraged by whatever they see on Techmeme, they write down whatever pops into their heads (without checking any facts and in most cases without even following the links), and then moves on to the next topic. A "discussion" lasts 24 hours.
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To be fair, the rest of Zoli’s comment is fairly insightful. But I note that he didn’t actually give his readers a chance to go read what I wrote so they could compare his reaction to my original argument. Instead, he sent them to Techmeme. Ugh. [My mistake. As Zoli points out in the comments, there is a link to my post, but it doesn’t appear until nine paragraphs in. My name is in the second paragraph, and the links there both point to Techmeme,. Apologies to Zoli for getting that part wrong.] Techmeme is the Short Attention Span Theater of the blogosphere. It’s an echo chamber. It encourages reactive, uncritical thinking. The blogswarm gets outraged by whatever they see on Techmeme, they write down whatever pops into their heads (without checking any facts and in most cases without even following the links), and then moves on to the next topic. A "discussion" lasts 24 hours.
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