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27 Mar · Mon 2006

I hate generalisations. All of them.

There's a bit of a brush-fire in the blogosphere, it seems, over the announced slippage of Microsoft Vista. Shelley Powers' Burningbird blog captures the tone of it all with characteristic wit and simplicity. OK, so Robert Scoble's nose was put out of joint some while back by an article in the Register... but the views he expresses as a result are so patently absurd that one has to wonder what purpose they serve. Though according to POSIWID the answer to that is simple: it's to make him look absurd. Here's an article from the Register which should, by Scoble's analysis, be given no credence at all. It's based on a single source, and written by an author who won't even sign it with anything more than a URL. Disgraceful. William, if you're reading this, I hope you feel suitably chastised ;^)

Posted by racingsnake @ 11:39 AM GMT+00:00 [ Comments [2] ]

Comments:

For me, the interesting effect of Scoble's action is not what people think about Scoble, but what they think about Microsoft. The obvious effect of Scoble's rant is to encourage people to click and link to the Australian article. (For my part, I only bothered to look at the Smarthouse article as a result of Scoble's clever post, and the commentary this generated.)

Perhaps Scoble is distantly related to the brave and brilliant Lady Tonge. (See George Monbiot's recent apology.)

Posted by RichardVeryard on March 27, 2006 at 01:10 PM GMT+00:00 #

Thanks Richard. Oh, those selfish and primitive bushmen. I cling to an optimistic expectation of better stuff from Lib Dems, in policy if not in their personal lives!

Roller seemed to add some superfluous bits and bbs to the link you posted, so here is just the raw URL.

http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2006/03/24/lady-tonge-an-apology

Posted by Robin Wilton on March 27, 2006 at 02:30 PM GMT+00:00 #

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