This guy is so full of himself I’m surprised he doesn’t have a ghost writer to do his column while he smokes cigars and criticizes the poor schmuck doing his work for him.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Fred Khumalo and I should feel very flattered indeed.
Every day there are 120000 new blog sites registered — a staggering 43 million a year. According to blog search engine Technorati, there are already 70 million blog sites registered worldwide. Admittedly the majority of the bloggers get bored rather quickly and don’t bother to update their sites, but that’s still 70 million people (higher than the population of the UK) who desperately want to be columnists.
It’s comforting to know that, should Fred or I decide to take a sabbatical, there’s no shortage of people available to hold the fort. The only snag is the quality, or lack of it.
David Bullard wants to name and shame offensive bloggers. Fine, whatever. Do it. But while you’re doing it, don’t insult the rest of the bloggers like me by making silly statements like the one below.
Many bloggers prefer to remain anonymous and with good reason. The content of their sites is so moronic that even their best friends would disown them if they knew they were the authors. As with most things in life, something that costs nothing is usually worth nothing and that puzzles me. Are there really 70 million bloggers out there hoping that their writing talents will be recognised, or is this just another example of modern narcissism?
I think Mr. Bullard feels threatened, and for good reason. Here’s a challenge for him: let his readers pick a column topic. I will write a column on the chosen topic. David Bullard will write a column on the topic. They will both be run side by side with voting buttons, on my blog, since you can’t do voting buttons in a print column. If my column wins, I get to take over Mr. Bullard’s job. If Bullard’s column wins, I’ll shut down this blog. Just because Bullard has an entire organization supporting his writing doesn’t mean he has a future audience. Perhaps he should focus on that instead of worrying about new media writers who may well have a bigger potential audience than Bullard does. Do you even know what a trackback is Mr. Bullard? Adapt or die, baby!
Hat tip: Instapundit (bigger audience than Bullard)