James Governor is pi**ed off this morning. I can understand that. He rants about Blogger, Google’s free blogging service and rightly so.
Blogger has the most annoying blog user registration system I have come across, constantly forcing the user to retype details into blogs they regularly visit….So the comments registration is evidently pretty heavyweight. It therefore seems contradictory that Blogger evidently is becoming the favoured home of spam blogs. Today my technorati tags sent me a bunch of crap. Thanks Blogger.
He bellows. Fortunately, I took the trouble and effort to put my stuff up on Wordpress – it takes time but it’s worth it. I don’t get crap. At least not visibly. I like that. Occasionally, I flush out the spam Akismet catches. When I can be bothered and have abso-frigging-lutely nothing better to do.
Jon Collins asks why no RSS as standard? Quite right. But then Google has no real reason to do anything about Blogger os RSS because the spam generated is almost certain to emanate from the very people that pay for AdWords and want to sell you porn, knock-off watches and Viagra substitutes. Which makes Google, with its claim of Do No Evil a hypocritical organisation – at least among those who decide what does and doesn’t get developed.
Which prompted me to visit the official SPAM site. Which in turn… got me to visit newbie Cote’s place where he rips the crap out of other members of the Living Dead. I like what he says about dog food as that fits in nicely with SPAM. But then another link took me to Cote’s other place where he says:
I’d wager that in most cases, enterprise customers wouldn’t care about bad continuity: they’d rather have software that makes them more money than software that has good continuity. This type of thinking is part of what feeds the notion of good enough software.
I really like this idea because it talks to the needs of end users. Something that’s been sadly missing in the bloatware of so-called productivity and recent edition business software. And by this means I noticed talk of ontology. Which in itself is a subject dear to my heart. Because it is an essential ingredient in understanding the inequality of this medium. My degree is in social sciences and the definition of sociology is the study of inequality. This medium is no different because being social, it reflects the human condition.
So despite Michael Arrington’s assertion that Tech.me-me-orandum can be equated to democracy when he says: “Things like democracy and memeorandum will help these things (like RedMonk’s coverage of the Sun gig) rise to the top” in a Gillmor Gang show, the reality is that Gatekeeper Gabe is just as biased as the next person. The difference is that I detect a certain hypocrisy about it. IMHO. Note: Gabe claimed he couldn’t remember whether Red Monk’s coverage of the Sun gig got into Tech.me-me-orandum. But then it is alleged Tech.me-me-orandum is pretty much hand crafted on a daily basis. Phew – that’s a lot of work for a lot of attention.
Am i joining the right dots? Maybe. But then I like the idea of blogocircles much more than I do blogosphere. Which is where tech.me-me-orandum is rooted.
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