Is recess over yet
All the feuding, fussing, fuming, fulminating, and generally embarrassing, adolescent asininity going on around the blog playground these days is nicely summed up with:
* Duncan Riley’s PDF charting of l’affairington.
* Amit Agarwal’s deft summary of the feuds around the jungle gym.
* Even in Germany, they’re laughing at it all under the headline, “Kindergarten-Schlacht der Blog-Giganten.” Translation: Kindergarten fight of the Blog giants.
Can we get back to class now?
Tags: Weblogs
December 15th, 2006 at 11:55 am
Sigh. I’m used to the persistent zooification of bloggers, but didn’t expect to find it here, too.
As you say, Jeff, blogs are people. People can be shitty. Next earth-shattering revelation, please.
December 15th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Yeah, bloggers are people too. The recess was fun (and yet damaging). Thinking out loud, it makes this recess awfully looking like a hidden lesson. Ah, those darn lessons learned. (smile)
December 15th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
A tempest in a blogpot? Favorite part of the PDF: Reference to Robert Scoble having nothing to do with the story, “but these things are never complete without him.”
December 15th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
Hahaha! Look at the funny people without jobs now! They are sniffing the snow for food!
It’s not just a joke, Jeff.
December 15th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
[...] Das ist fast so gut, wie in der New York Times zitiert zu werden: Journalistik-Professor Jeff Jarvis hat in einem sarkastischen Beitrag zur laufenden Kontroverse unter den Uber-Bloggern (Michael Arrington vs New York Times & Dave Winer & Jeff Jarvis & Rafat Ali) unter dem Titel “Ist die Pause endlich vorbei?” auf den Beitrag der Medienlese verwiesen: “sogar in Deutschland lacht man über uns alle, die Schlagzeile lautet ‘Kindergarten - Schlacht der Blog-Giganten’. Können wir bitte in die nächste Schulstunde zurückkehren?” [...]
December 15th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Jeff, I’m thrilled. By linking to “medienlese” you just proved my point that a well-chosen headline is as important in blogging for links as it is in the dead-tree-media for sales.
While “Kindergarten” obviously is something you wouldn’t want to be related to, having an occasion to mention that you’re even noticed in Germany and getting an opportunity to have somebody else call you a “blog-giant”, all in less than five words, is tempting, isn’t it?
(no offense ment, for the sake of a peaceful next recess…)
December 16th, 2006 at 7:08 pm
Every community is one punch away from becoming a mob.
December 20th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Jeff, will you please lay off? You were one of my mentors, someone I looked up to. You think I’m a schmuck for what I said about the NY Times. Fine. But that doesn’t mean I’m wrong about everything else I write, too. This seems like you want my head on a spike, and you won’t be satisfied until I stop blogging.
I’m not going to sling any more mud your way. I hope that you can remember our friendship and stop throwing it at me, too.
December 21st, 2006 at 7:10 am
Mike,
This was my attempt — apparently clumsy — to suggest that we should all stop with the slinging and get back to business. I saw that you were amused by the chart. So was I.
Note above that I congratulated you for getting PayPerPost to be (almost) honest. That’s back to business.
jeff
December 21st, 2006 at 7:29 am
Ah.
Well in that case, nevermind.
January 29th, 2007 at 8:50 am
[...] Some of our blog posts managed to get on the radar screens of eminent blogging personalities like Jeff Jarvis, Nicholas Karr, Robert Scoble, Dave Winer, Darren Rowse, Michael Parekh and Steve Rubel. [...]