Bullard Link-Baits Bloggers?

Posted on May 7th, 2007 by mohamed and tagged , , , .

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?".

Comments

Good point. If he is

Good point. If he is link-baiting us, hell, if he knows what link-baiting even is I will post an apology and praise the man's genius!! :)

Comment by Nic (not verified) on May 7th, 2007 at 9:52 am

That's what I say, Why is

That's what I say, Why is everyone so concerned about a paranoid ageing columnist's opnion? May his name only ever appear on paper.

Comment by Karen (not verified) on May 7th, 2007 at 10:52 am

It's a pity some people are

It's a pity some people are unilateral in their thinking.

Comment by Izz (not verified) on May 7th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Comment by youngBLOOD · Bullardgate: A BIG shout-out to the Blogosphere (not verified) on May 7th, 2007 at 2:21 pm

He find bloggers a threat.

He find bloggers a threat. Simple as that.

Comment by Charmed (not verified) on May 7th, 2007 at 5:19 pm

[...] trippingly set a trap

[...] trippingly set a trap to test the bloggy waters & found his bait handsomely rewarded. It would have been a wonderful time to translate that attention: but wait, [...]

Comment by SA Rocks » Blog Archive » Freedom to Fury : Raging Bullard? (not verified) on May 7th, 2007 at 10:23 pm

@Nic there is no way he

@Nic there is no way he knows what link-baiting is however he has a great team on board at the Sunday Times to help him out with these kind of things. I wonder who setup his new blog site? I'm pretty sure it wasn't him...

Comment by Justin Hartman (not verified) on May 7th, 2007 at 11:31 pm

It's a pity some people are

It's a pity some people are unilateral in their thinking.

Comment by Anonymous (not verified) on Jan 16th, 2009 at 7:40 am

Good point. If he is

Good point. If he is link-baiting us, hell, if he knows what link-baiting even is I will post an apology and praise the man's genius!!

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