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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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!! :)
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.
It's a pity some people are
It's a pity some people are unilateral in their thinking.
[...] Mohamed Nanabhay
[...] Mohamed Nanabhay http://www.mohamedn.com/2007/05/07/bullard-link-baits-bloggers/ [...]
He find bloggers a threat.
He find bloggers a threat. Simple as that.
[...] 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, [...]
@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...
It's a pity some people are
It's a pity some people are unilateral in their thinking.
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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