{"id":63,"date":"2005-10-28T17:43:58","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T17:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=8"},"modified":"2005-10-28T17:43:58","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T17:43:58","slug":"revenge-of-the-blog-o-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2005\/10\/28\/revenge-of-the-blog-o-sphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenge of the blog-o-sphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Forbes magazine was looking for some attention from the Internet, they certainly got what they were asking for. Unfortunately, it isn&#8217;t coming because of some fine-quality, well-written journalism, but because of what bloggers are taking as a drive-by-shooting style rant about how bloggers are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2005\/1114\/128_print.html\">dirty, rotten, lying scumbags<\/a>.  The piece by Daniel Lyons is more or less about a battle between one man whose company and stock were hammered by a blogger who pretended to be someone else, but along the way Lyons casts some aspersions against bloggers as a whole. Reaction (not surprisingly) has come from far and wide, including <a href=\"http:\/\/bayosphere.com\/blog\/dan_gillmor\/20051027\/forbes_versus_blogs_surprisingly_trashy_journalism\">Dan Gillmor at Bayosphere<\/a>, Steve Rubel at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.micropersuasion.com\/2005\/10\/forbes_cover_st.html\">MicroPersuasion<\/a>, the guys over at <a href=\"http:\/\/webreakstuff.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/forbes-says-we-lie-and-cheat\/\">We Break Stuff<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/001938.html\">Paul Kedrosky at Infectious Greed<\/a>. Is it a deliberate attempt by Forbes to get some coverage in the blog-o-sphere &#8212; even if it&#8217;s negative? Perhaps. Or it could just be that publisher Malcolm Forbes got a bee in his bonnet about blogs for some reason. Meanwhile, Chris Pirillo notes sarcastically that <a href=\"http:\/\/chris.pirillo.com\/blog\/_archives\/2005\/10\/28\/1327336.html\">magazines also suffer from some of the same problems<\/a>. But Om Malik (who used to work for the magazine before he moved to Business 2.0, says he is <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2005\/10\/28\/attack-the-bloggers\/\">reserving judgment for the moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> In a great piece for abcnews.com, Michael Malone &#8212; former editor of Forbes&#8217; ASAP technology magazine and long-time Silicon Valley observer &#8212; talks about blogs and notes that the business magazine is the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/SiliconInsider\/story?id=750595\">one of the best technology counter-indicators I know<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Forbes magazine was looking for some attention from the Internet, they certainly got what they were asking for. Unfortunately, it isn&#8217;t coming because of some fine-quality, well-written journalism, but because of what bloggers are taking as a drive-by-shooting style rant about how bloggers are dirty, rotten, lying scumbags. The piece by Daniel Lyons is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2005\/10\/28\/revenge-of-the-blog-o-sphere\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Revenge of the blog-o-sphere&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}