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Bullard Link-Baits Bloggers?

By mohamed - Posted on 07 May 2007

I woke up this morning to an invitation to join the Facebook group "Bullardgate". It seems that David Bullard, the pompous Sunday Times coloumnist has kicked up a storm with a scathing piece on blogging and bloggers. Vincent Maher didn't take kindly to Bullard's piece - not only did he rip it to shreds pargraph by paragraph but also kicked off a campaign to get Bullard to apologise.

I'm all for kicking up a storm and fighting The Man yet I can't help but wonder if David Bullard has just successfully link-baited us all. Maybe next week he'll announce how many links his article got. :)

Of course, this isn't the first time someone has gotten blogs so wrong. At least Bullard admits to having read a few blogs. At the 3rd AlJazeera Forum, straight after Lawerence Lessig's keynote I heard a senior executive from a big news corporation ask the person next to him "what's a blog?".

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mn tweeted "Speaking at NEXT in Barcelona next week. Think I'll call it "From live streaming to lifestreaming"" 7:00am#
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mn tweeted "@solanasaurus just saw from their twitter stream that they're trying to recruit you ;-)" 8:13pm#
mn tweeted "@fredwilson Heh...I thought the same thing a few minutes ago until I realised how down GOOG and APPL are from a month ago *g*" 8:06pm#
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mn tweeted "Trying a asmallworld - anyone there? ping me...." 5:46am#
mn tweeted "@zephoria because they have the game "Doom" as part of the in flight entertainment system ;-)" 5:44am#
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mn tweeted "@akalsey thanks for posting your Drupal scaling deck http://tinyurl.com/66uwpe" 7:31pm#
mn tweeted "East Coast tweeps : What is the best way to get from JFK to Yale, New Haven?" 6:24pm#
mn listened to R.E.M. – Houston 12:52pm#
mn listened to R.E.M. – Mr. Richards 12:48pm#

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