Best example ever of web 2.0 reportage's forthcoming implosion into the blackhole of irrelevance →
Arrington vs. Cashmore: Tech titans clash in Hollywood via caro.
Don’t waste your time reading it. The clash was just one blogger who had a party and kicking the other blogger out of the venue.Industry tiffs are fun. Would be happening in almost every city, every day and in every industry. I doubt when this sort of thing happens with rival real estate agents in Sydney or competing restaurant owners in London anyone involved would say:
This story, Cashmore was convinced, was going to be huge in the tech world. “[Arrington’s] blog is one of the top 10 blogs in the world, my blog is one of the top 10 blogs in the world—the tech community is going to go crazy about this.If he meant crazy like ROFLMAO at him, then totally. Unfortunately, he thought people would care.
You don’t get this elsewhere. People in other industries have perspective. There is less grandiose delusions of relevance amongst their peers. They understand the lack of importance a ‘clash’ like this would hold in reality of day-to-day business. When it happens they get over it and just get on with making coin. Not so in web 2.0 reportage. Is going to be a wonderful day when we wake up in maybe 18 months time and realise it has all been replaced by people less concerned with themselves who are instead focused on communicating to and converting mainstream audiences to the technologies that underlie web 2.0 as well as building/managing communities that will help facilitate that.
There are so many ridiculous lines in this article that it HAS to be a joke. April 11 means double the fools, right? Please? I mean, my understanding of the personalities of Web 2.0 is an inflated sense of self-worth and a bizarre fascination with publicizing their own gossip (okay, I guess that goes with the territory of 2.0). But hearing that “outraged Cashmore was hastily text-messaging” is too good to be true. I want a tech news sceptor.
