Doc Searls has some interesting comments about this pathetic hit piece from The Register aimed at a Microsoft employee who keeps a weblog. The article basically is one long insult toward the MS employee because she apparently devoted her weblog to pictures of her cats, descriptions of her XBox-playing habits, etc.
Doc should just come out and be blunt about it — Andrew Orlowski’s being a John Dvorak-sized asshole there.
It amazes me to no end how obssessed some people are with pointing out that people post “trivial” data about their lives on their weblogs or web sites. With some of these columnists, you’d think that posting a picture of your cat or dog online was akin to spreading child pornography.
I wonder if there were similar critiques of the phone system. I can just see an early 20th century John Dvorak or Andrew Orlowski complaining that people were wasting precious telephone bandwidth merely talking to loved ones and sharing the daily minutae of their lives rather than doing truly important things (as the John Dvorak’s and Andrew Orlowki’s of the world are offering indispensable insights — not).