What, I can’t even rant on my own blog?

lol @ Matt W

Mark – agreed, the article was over the top and silly.

And there you go, amplifying their pointlessness. You gotta let some things go, Sunny!

sometimes you just have to point and laugh (or cry)

Random stat: Jodrell Bank has 1/3 as many followers as Patrick Moore has viewers. Discuss.

As for the psychologist quote – that pretty sums up the futility and credibility of the ill-thought out piece. People are paid to speak and to write, and this looks like an example of writing something because something had to be written. Perhaps popular journalists should write content stories and put them up for auction – this way they would be forced to focus on what is important and truly interesting and all the ‘writing for the sake of writing’ would be abolished. Yes, lets set up a portal for auctioning articles (E-bay for the written word!). I will sell this idea for 50p.

This sort of “I’ve read a bit about you therefore I can make medical pronouncements” is popular in the media – and to me it is far from clear that this is the sort of stuff we should welcome, regardless of who is on the receiving end of the diagnosis.

Yes, there are more important things to talk about but I guess the impending financial doom isn’t fun to blog about every single day.

Why people have to waste time telling us what a waste of time other people’s activities are is completely beyond me.

Bloggers divide into those that believe they are doing something “serious” and important, or are frustrated because they are trying to and failing, and those of us who realise that blogging for most people is just a pastime, like painting model soldiers, and doesn’t add up to a hill of beans.

I’ll let you “serious”, self-important bloggers do your thing if you’ll just stop patronising the rest of us. After all, surely there are FAR more important things you could all be doing than moaning about Guido, Dale, Dizzy, Twitter et al?

Yes, about as much time as YOU had on your hands to write this piece. Sheesh!

Why have you written an article about this flim-flammery?

Only someone as trivial as Guido, would think something as irrelevant as Draper’s twitter account would constitute a news story.

He’s almost as desperate as that serial internet-pest, Dizzy.

So Rachel Sylvester writes an article criticising Twitter.”

It’s not only some bloggers, but just people using Twitter in general. I don’t get the hype about it, why people are “tweeting” about things I could give two shits about. Like, “My hubby and kids have gone to bed…finally I get some rest!” or “I’m at the airport, just killing time.” Do I care? No.

BUT, if politicians are using Twitter, great way to call them out on tweets coming out all wrong and discordant. But even then, I imagine that PR people have taken over to make sure the tweets are polished, pleasing to the ear, and not making too much ruckus.