Is the blogosphere doomed by unprofessional behavior?
These public bitchfest’s by the supposed “A-List” really need to be taken offline. This crap has filled my RSS reader for too long - I want to be reading real, valuable, useful information from these “thought leaders”, not this drivel. If you can’t share an opinion in a way that adds value - why bother?
I haven’t bothered to read up on the current brouhaha involving Loren Feldman/Mike Arrington and Shel Isreal because I really couldn’t care less. The result is that TechCrunch has less value today than yesterday, and I now know that I’ll not even bother to stop in at 1938 Media. I’ve got better things to waste my valuable time on.
If you’re wondering when blogging will overtake MSM, you’ll first have to get the leading online “publications” to stop acting like 10 year old playground bullies. Until that happens, and people working on high-profile sites start acting like real professionals blogging will remain a little Gen-Y pipedream.
There - I feel better now. 
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Comment by Jim Kukral I dunno. I think it’s just another form of content. It’s entertainment. You may just not be entertained by it.
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Comment by Rick Mahn Hi Dan - you’re right about lot’s to choose from! I’ve been looking more and more for the next group of bloggers that have useful and entertaining content. Most of the one’s I find are straight out of my Twitter friends.
Jim, I see what you mean, but I guess it’s just lost on me as you mention. I really respect Shel, and Arrington/Feldman have lost some of my respect in this case.
Looking forward to more good stuff out there though.
Comment by BarbaraKB (Might want to edit that post title here: extra “is” in there)
And yes, this has built much of the blogosphere. And newspapers. And magazines. And television. And radio… Part of the mix.
Thanks for allowing me to comment
Comment by Rick Mahn Comment by Rick Mahn Barbara - 
Nice catch! Too true on what built the blogosphere - opinions, debate, disagreements… true exchanges of viewpoints.
There is the piece I was hoping to learn from this post - that even though I really don’t like the unprofessional approach that was used, it is a conversation in the public space. We can draw our own conclusions from it, but it’s the exchange of ideas and perceptions.
Thanks Barbara!
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Luckily with estimates of 84-120 odd million blogs around, there are plenty of others to take up the slack when one or two get bogged down in an argument.
As long as good quality blogs are able to be rewarded by recommendations, links back, and growing audiences, we’ll be OK.
But then again, people like a good bitchfest between celebrities…