Bloggers Invented The Internet
By Nick Wilson
Expert Author
Article Date: 2005-02-27
A while back i wrote a small rant on how bloggers think they invented the internet - Now i'd like to add a little more ...
Frank Banarko at MarketWatch slams the "business blogging awards" - a farcical little PR stunt with no purpose other than to promote the organizers and arse kiss a few potential clients by the look of it.
Really, it doesn't look as if these guys could organize a piss up in brewery:
In one blog posting, Barefoot wrote, "We're dispensing with existing votes. They weren't remotely accurate." They also seemed to plead for entries. A dozen categories were too lean, Barefoot said. Then they had trouble tallying the votes. "We've been through nearly half a dozen tools since we launched (in addition to the 20 I pre-vetted before I went to Napa) and nothing's quite fit yet," Wright wrote.
These problems were discussed on the Business Blogging Awards Web site
Note to the "we've just discovered how to build a website crowd" - Please Stop now, you're boring the rest of us to tears...
About the Author:
Nick Wilson is the publisher and founder of Threadwatch.org.
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