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Original Post: Dissing Cluetrain
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John Dvorak just gave a big, huge raspberry to The Cluetrain Manifesto. Now, a lot of what he writes is guilty of the same kind of "you don't get it" smugness that he accuses the blogosphere of - a good for instance:
In fact the brown-nosing that goes on between bloggers singing each others' praises makes the worst office kiss-ups look tame by comparison. I mention this anomaly since these Cluetrain folks all believe the opposite to be true. Somehow networking like this, according to the Cluetrainees, reveals truth"when in fact it supports and forces the worst kind of conformist behavior. Try to find a blog that is ever critical of another blog. I've never seen it.
Apparently, he's not actually reading blogs - a goodly proportion of what I see in my reading is people knocking down the assertions of other people. In a sense, blogs are an escape from Usenet, now that the trolls have overrun the commons.
Now, that's not to say that Dvorak doesn't make some good points here - I've had much the same reaction to a large part of Cluetrain. In any case, it's always a good idea to see sacred cows get peed on - if nothing else, it forces some actual thought on the topic.
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