Mike Malone's research and unique perspective on the Forbes blogging thing really helps. My take was that Forbes (the magazine) tells it's readers what they want to hear vs. what they have to hear, and this just confirms it.....
via ABC News: Silicon Insider:
So, needless to say, seeing the words "Forbes" and "tech" anywhere near each other usually makes my teeth chatter. Still, last Thursday at the airport, when I at last looked at the new Forbes cover, I could only laugh. This time, Forbes may have set a new high water mark: It actually wrote off a new industry on the very day it was born.
The piece, "The Attack of the Blogs," is a strange, sour essay by Daniel Lyons whose theme — captured well in the subhead — is: "Web logs are the prized platform of an on-line lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective …" What follows is an apparent attempt to tar all of those 20 million bloggers out there with the scummy practices of a few dozen renegades. The overall message is (picture an old guy at a private club rattling his old-fashioned invective and shouting): "Of course I believe in free speech and all that, but this kind of thing must be stopped!"
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