scareduck - 3:29 pm on Nov 9, 2002 (gmt 0)

The manifesto is anti everything Dvorak ever stood for. It's not the first time we've heard the geritol laced damn it I old and the Rogain quit working long ago cries from Dvorak. It's not fitting of a freshman journalism class, let alone worthy of a major magazine article.

On the contrary -- he takes on Cluetrain with verve and without resting his entire argument on ad hominems. Are markets people? Conversations? What are they? Who knows -- the authors certainly can't seem to make up their minds. And that's just the beginning. Cluetrain is self-important nonsense from <edit> people </edit> who haven't managed a large corporation (or substantially grown a small one) to profitability a day in their lives. Just because you can build a decent website doesn't make you a Rockefeller.

So where, then is content? There isn't any, but that's not the point. Self-promotion is. Some of us have observed an unlearning process [finance.yahoo.com] in the public markets regarding exactly this sort of style-over-substance thinking, yet the false messiah business seems hot as ever. Given the wreckage [f---edcompany.com] left behind by equally talented individuals with plenty o' cash to burn, why is there anyone left who believes in this cult?

Googleguy -- you say that

Google was paying attention the bottom line when it wasn't cool

to which I would respond -- they show you the books? And how would you know if you were being lied to even if they do?

[edited by: NFFC at 3:40 pm (utc) on Nov. 9, 2002]
[edit reason] Rudeness removed, lets keep this polite please [/edit]