David Bullard is surely one of South Africa’s (formerly) great print journalists, and I read his weekly column in the online and print edition of the Sunday Times (which has a readership of well over 1m people) with much eager anticipation, with the exception of this week’s post on bloggers. I am not going to echo Vincent Maher’s rebuttal, except to say that outright that I think Bullard is a fool with no understanding of new media and it’s impact on society.
To quote from David’s post:
Allow me to explain what I mean. I used to play air guitar with a band called Deep Purple. My playing was perfect, I had attitude and I even smashed my air guitar at the end of the number. The reason I played air guitar is that I couldn’t play real guitar very well so I was forced to dwell in this fantasy world where my guitar playing meant something only to me. I should point out that this was years ago when I was still young and foolish. These days I play air tenor saxophone, which is far more challenging.
Most blog sites are the air guitars of journalism. They’re cobbled together by people who wouldn’t stand a hope in hell of getting a job in journalism, mainly because they have very little to say. It’s rather sad how many people think the tedious minutiae of their lives will be of any interest to anyone else.
It’s even sadder when someone reads them.
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.
And this piece:
These are the sort of wackos who gun down their fellow students at university.
This is exactly the mentality that is leading to the decline of offline print as a source of information, because the people entrenched in the offline world are so resistant to change, they cannot keep up with the times.
If I had to paraphrase what Bullard is saying, then basically Michael Arrington, Om Malik, Robert Scoble, Jeremy Zawodny, Danny Sullivan & Matt Cutts wouldn’t ever get hired by a print publication - (like hell) - but even more to the point, why would they want to write for a bunch of anally retentive middle to late aged complacent publications that are in a declining market. Most of the CEO’s and editors of these publications are hoping to retire before they go bust and Web 2.0 becomes and entrenched way of life - and this is probably one of the biggest drivers of their resistance to change - with maybe the exception of Rupert Murdoch.
Ok, so you may have guessed that this is one of the very few times I rant on my blog - but I think it’s insane for a well reputed journalist to write such a scathing post about something he obviously knows nothing about! Ingorance is bliss, I’m afraid…
David Bullard : Wake up and smell the coffee - just because bloggers want independence from beaurocratic print houses and leveraging the reach of the Internet, this does not make their work of a lower quality than yours! Life is about choices, and we CHOOSE not to work for print and have editors telling us what and how to write - freedom of speech is grand!! Good luck to you though!
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Comments On This Post
May 7, 2007 at 11:03 am
Round of applause to Vinny for this post.
May 7, 2007 at 11:16 am
Vinny, you rant well when you do rant!
May 7, 2007 at 11:23 am
Clapclapclapclapclap! I appluad you! Now, what is going to be interesting is the effect of David Bullard’s rant in the social media circles… I see your post has been digged 6 times by the time of this comment. Interesting…
May 7, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Round of applause to Vinny for this post.
May 7, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Vinny, you rant well when you do rant!
May 7, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Clapclapclapclapclap! I appluad you! Now, what is going to be interesting is the effect of David Bullard’s rant in the social media circles… I see your post has been digged 6 times by the time of this comment. Interesting…
May 7, 2007 at 1:24 pm
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May 7, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Funny. I spent a few years writing for a print publication. Heck, I was an editor for about half that time too.
Whatever…
May 7, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Funny. I spent a few years writing for a print publication. Heck, I was an editor for about half that time too.
Whatever…
May 7, 2007 at 5:54 pm
[...] Vinny Lingham smartly notes that, “This is exactly the mentality that is leading to the decline of offline print as a source of information, because the people entrenched in the offline world are so resistant to change, they cannot keep up with the times.” [...]
May 7, 2007 at 6:16 pm
Looks like you took the bait, Vinny. Bullard’s reeling you in.
Calling blogging the air guitar of journalism is some pretty serious link baiting, though….
May 7, 2007 at 6:57 pm
The off-line news media seems hell bent on discrediting itself and turning away readers, listeners, and viewers. There is a progression to it.
One first figures out that one is deceived by trusting the media in one’s specialty but you keep going back to reading it anyway because they do serve to identify “hot” news even if they get the facts and interpretation wrong more often than not but you still trust that the general stuff is fine.
Then you discover just about every other specialist you ask is working similarly distrusts the mainstream media on their specialty, you connect the dots and decide the MSM is just unreliable for specialist stuff entirely. At a certain point the penny drops and you find out they are unreliable about *everything*.
It’s at this point where heavy denial sets in because people at this stage still consume mass media product, they are just very angry about it. There is a huge residual well of trust, of tribal affiliation, deep psychological stuff that nobody much likes to look at, especially when things turn personal.
But the centre cannot hold. To reduce one’s blood pressure and preserve your mental state, alternate media starts getting consumed more and more and the psychological deference granted to the MSM drops with each badly reported story.
The final phase is where you don’t care anymore, merely dropping in to comment areas like this one, hoping to ease along others who may be trapped in earlier stages of the process. So widen your news sources and resign yourself to cobbling together a set of trusted news sources out of the “new media”. The old media is falling apart and relying on it exclusively is starting to be downright embarrassing.
May 7, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Blogs are a threat to his arrogant ass. Kind of like Bill Gates claiming 640K ram was enough for anybody. Information wants to be free…and on the net…it will be freer than most.
May 7, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Pretty strong stuff, Vinny, however I suggest you read Mathew Bucklands (http://www.matthewbuckland.com/) blog for a well thought through and considered response to the Bullard Brouhaha. Simply put, Bullards tongue-in-cheek, provocative style is one of the reaons why is columns are so popular.
If you could not discern that then it leads me to think that there may be more than an element of truth in Bullards comments about bloggers?
May 7, 2007 at 7:39 pm
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May 7, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Thanks for all the comments guys!
Gary:
Your point could equally be directed at Vincent Maher. The fact of the matter is that Bullard has a huge audience and significant influence, and given the nature of the different segments that we target, less than 1% of his readers will ever see the blogosphere challenge him.
His post was obviously meant to evoke emotion and incite the sort of posts that I have just made, however, the other 99% do not have the ability to discern and will read, absorb and believe much of what he writes.
The sad truth is that for the average consumer, print media is still more trusted than online - but that is the changing face of media. That said, doesn’t Bullard have an interest in maintaining that edge and if he is in this position of power and influence over his readers, does it mean that he should abuse it?
On a balanced view, I think he was definitely trying to incite the blogosphere, but also, deep down, he really did get his beliefs across.
Such is the nature of free speech - you have my views and responses, simply because I am free to give it as I see fit…
May 7, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Looks like you took the bait, Vinny. Bullard’s reeling you in.
Calling blogging the air guitar of journalism is some pretty serious link baiting, though….
May 7, 2007 at 8:57 pm
The off-line news media seems hell bent on discrediting itself and turning away readers, listeners, and viewers. There is a progression to it.
One first figures out that one is deceived by trusting the media in one’s specialty but you keep going back to reading it anyway because they do serve to identify “hot” news even if they get the facts and interpretation wrong more often than not but you still trust that the general stuff is fine.
Then you discover just about every other specialist you ask is working similarly distrusts the mainstream media on their specialty, you connect the dots and decide the MSM is just unreliable for specialist stuff entirely. At a certain point the penny drops and you find out they are unreliable about *everything*.
It’s at this point where heavy denial sets in because people at this stage still consume mass media product, they are just very angry about it. There is a huge residual well of trust, of tribal affiliation, deep psychological stuff that nobody much likes to look at, especially when things turn personal.
But the centre cannot hold. To reduce one’s blood pressure and preserve your mental state, alternate media starts getting consumed more and more and the psychological deference granted to the MSM drops with each badly reported story.
The final phase is where you don’t care anymore, merely dropping in to comment areas like this one, hoping to ease along others who may be trapped in earlier stages of the process. So widen your news sources and resign yourself to cobbling together a set of trusted news sources out of the “new media”. The old media is falling apart and relying on it exclusively is starting to be downright embarrassing.
May 7, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Blogs are a threat to his arrogant ass. Kind of like Bill Gates claiming 640K ram was enough for anybody. Information wants to be free…and on the net…it will be freer than most.
May 7, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Pretty strong stuff, Vinny, however I suggest you read Mathew Bucklands (http://www.matthewbuckland.com/) blog for a well thought through and considered response to the Bullard Brouhaha. Simply put, Bullards tongue-in-cheek, provocative style is one of the reaons why is columns are so popular.
If you could not discern that then it leads me to think that there may be more than an element of truth in Bullards comments about bloggers?
May 7, 2007 at 9:09 pm
[...] I don’t know how much more wrong he could be in the second video, I bet that many bloggers, Michael Arrington, Vinny Langham, etc, could buy him and everything he owns over and over, but I really don’t know him, so I’ll just assume it, like he does. Vinny had a few comments on the article himself. David Bullard : Wake up and smell the coffee - just because bloggers want independence from beaurocratic print houses and leveraging the reach of the Internet, this does not make their work of a lower quality than yours! Life is about choices, and we CHOOSE not to work for print and have editors telling us what and how to write - freedom of speech is grand!! Good luck to you though! Source: Offline Print Journalist calls Bloggers “Wackos who gun down their fellow students” [...]
May 7, 2007 at 9:26 pm
[...] you may even refine your skills and one day rise to the hallowed domain of the pressroom, I know you all secretly long for it, now [...]
May 7, 2007 at 9:38 pm
[...] Vinny Lingham calls Bullard: a “fool with no understanding of new media and it’s impact on society….This is exactly the mentality that is leading to the decline of offline print as a source of information, because the people entrenched in the offline world are so resistant to change, they cannot keep up with the times.” [...]
May 7, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Thanks for all the comments guys!
Gary:
Your point could equally be directed at Vincent Maher. The fact of the matter is that Bullard has a huge audience and significant influence, and given the nature of the different segments that we target, less than 1% of his readers will ever see the blogosphere challenge him.
His post was obviously meant to evoke emotion and incite the sort of posts that I have just made, however, the other 99% do not have the ability to discern and will read, absorb and believe much of what he writes.
The sad truth is that for the average consumer, print media is still more trusted than online - but that is the changing face of media. That said, doesn’t Bullard have an interest in maintaining that edge and if he is in this position of power and influence over his readers, does it mean that he should abuse it?
On a balanced view, I think he was definitely trying to incite the blogosphere, but also, deep down, he really did get his beliefs across.
Such is the nature of free speech - you have my views and responses, simply because I am free to give it as I see fit…
May 7, 2007 at 10:59 pm
[...] discussions going on here, here and [...]
May 8, 2007 at 3:02 am
[...] Offline Print Journalist calls Bloggers “Wackos who gun down their fellow students”Actually I think it’s the print journalism people who are more likely to go postal these days. What with declining circulation, plumeting revenues, and shrinking influence. [...]
May 8, 2007 at 10:38 am
It is quite sad to see that Bullard decided to pick on the Webby’s. Hope he is ready for a armada of spam from everyone *LOL*. On a serious note it is disconcerting even for myself when I am told Marketing budget is assigned primarily to the Print Media rather than my department no matter how much we in the Web arena can produce results it will always be negated by the traditionalists in any company. HEY BULLARD ! Maybe i’ll start a blog and shoot my fellow marketing team? Whaddya say?! *LOL*
May 8, 2007 at 12:38 pm
It is quite sad to see that Bullard decided to pick on the Webby’s. Hope he is ready for a armada of spam from everyone *LOL*. On a serious note it is disconcerting even for myself when I am told Marketing budget is assigned primarily to the Print Media rather than my department no matter how much we in the Web arena can produce results it will always be negated by the traditionalists in any company. HEY BULLARD ! Maybe i’ll start a blog and shoot my fellow marketing team? Whaddya say?! *LOL*
May 8, 2007 at 12:54 pm
There seems to be a lot of confusion, both in David’s post and in Vinny’s. The VAST majority of blogs do indeed take the form of mind-numbingly boring minutae of people’s lives.
David’s error is that he extrapolates that onto the more serious blogs and then brings in the journalism snipe. Vinny’s error is he buys into David’s trap.
May 8, 2007 at 2:54 pm
There seems to be a lot of confusion, both in David’s post and in Vinny’s. The VAST majority of blogs do indeed take the form of mind-numbingly boring minutae of people’s lives.
David’s error is that he extrapolates that onto the more serious blogs and then brings in the journalism snipe. Vinny’s error is he buys into David’s trap.
May 8, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Guys, I can’t help but think all this uproar is playing directly into David Bullard’s hands. I have specifically chosen not to blog about this story. The moment he decides to blog (some think he already has) he is guaranteed a massive readership. Hwy? Cause all thise deriding him have giving him the traction!
He can’t lose! Ssshhhh!!!!
May 8, 2007 at 7:51 pm
I dont think this is a trap of any kind. the guy’s seriously ignorant.
May 8, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Guys, I can’t help but think all this uproar is playing directly into David Bullard’s hands. I have specifically chosen not to blog about this story. The moment he decides to blog (some think he already has) he is guaranteed a massive readership. Hwy? Cause all thise deriding him have giving him the traction!
He can’t lose! Ssshhhh!!!!
May 8, 2007 at 9:51 pm
I dont think this is a trap of any kind. the guy’s seriously ignorant.
May 8, 2007 at 10:52 pm
It’s so much fun to watch the gnashing of teeth and wailing as the corporate ships are run through by unregulated freedom of speech. Bullard’s quite clearly resorting to sensationalism, that dirtiest of rags hanging from the arse of tabloid culture, in an effort to scrape some web2.0 under his nails. Sis, David. I thought better of you for too long, it seems.
May 8, 2007 at 11:00 pm
By the by, how arrogant are you, Bullard, to assume what and what not people might be interested in reading? How long has the government-sanctioned media complex fed us lies? Remember Apartheid, buddy? Not to mention the crap CNN spews out on a daily basis. I look forward to seeing your blog. If you wanted to make an entrance, you’ve picked a hell of a knife-fight to do it with. http://habit47.vox.com
May 8, 2007 at 11:40 pm
I have to admit feeling peeved, not only for the efforts I put into my own blog (blog! not publication! I am not a journalist!) but for all the other quality blogs I read - of course there are far too many crappy blogs out ‘here’, but then we do choose to only get feeds from blogs whose point of view we value.
And if I do happen to want to read about Paris Hilton, or other mindless stuff, I can be assured that it’ll only arrive in the print press 3 days later (or on Sunday! in some cases).
May 9, 2007 at 12:52 am
It’s so much fun to watch the gnashing of teeth and wailing as the corporate ships are run through by unregulated freedom of speech. Bullard’s quite clearly resorting to sensationalism, that dirtiest of rags hanging from the arse of tabloid culture, in an effort to scrape some web2.0 under his nails. Sis, David. I thought better of you for too long, it seems.
May 9, 2007 at 1:00 am
By the by, how arrogant are you, Bullard, to assume what and what not people might be interested in reading? How long has the government-sanctioned media complex fed us lies? Remember Apartheid, buddy? Not to mention the crap CNN spews out on a daily basis. I look forward to seeing your blog. If you wanted to make an entrance, you’ve picked a hell of a knife-fight to do it with. http://habit47.vox.com
May 9, 2007 at 1:40 am
I have to admit feeling peeved, not only for the efforts I put into my own blog (blog! not publication! I am not a journalist!) but for all the other quality blogs I read - of course there are far too many crappy blogs out ‘here’, but then we do choose to only get feeds from blogs whose point of view we value.
And if I do happen to want to read about Paris Hilton, or other mindless stuff, I can be assured that it’ll only arrive in the print press 3 days later (or on Sunday! in some cases).
May 9, 2007 at 7:49 am
I’ve been reading David Bullard’s column for years with fair amusement, but am incapable of taking him seriously. Surprized that he’s got such a big reaction for attacking blogs.
May 9, 2007 at 9:49 am
I’ve been reading David Bullard’s column for years with fair amusement, but am incapable of taking him seriously. Surprized that he’s got such a big reaction for attacking blogs.
May 9, 2007 at 10:01 am
Bullard’s publicity stunt worked really well. With all the traffic he’s bringing in to sundaytimes.co.za he’ll be able to ask for a raise soon.
May 9, 2007 at 11:12 am
SimmeV - yeh, I’m with you on that - I certainly don’t think it was a deliberate trap - he appears completely unaware of his misunderstanding of levels of logic!
May 9, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Bullard’s publicity stunt worked really well. With all the traffic he’s bringing in to sundaytimes.co.za he’ll be able to ask for a raise soon.
May 9, 2007 at 1:12 pm
SimmeV - yeh, I’m with you on that - I certainly don’t think it was a deliberate trap - he appears completely unaware of his misunderstanding of levels of logic!
May 9, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Lucky for David there will soon be blogging technology simple enough for him to setup his own blog, when the tedious minutiae of his life will be the only thing of interest to himself and the sadder few who read it.
May 9, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Lucky for David there will soon be blogging technology simple enough for him to setup his own blog, when the tedious minutiae of his life will be the only thing of interest to himself and the sadder few who read it.
May 11, 2007 at 7:26 pm
In reality, no one should make sweeping generalisations about bloggers. There are just too many of them (us) to categorise and define with a few paragraphs.
The fact is, Bullard is right in some senses: Think about Livejournal and its throngs of idiots. I’ve read the blogs of people I went to university with… they post all manners of stupid things. They don’t gun down their peers, but they partly fit Bullard’s description. blogs.myspace.com will elicit even worse forms of online authors.
However, some bloggers are indeed trained writers, savvy business-people and just as qualified to put finger-to-keyboard as Mr. Bullard. How about I write a paragraph and sum up every print journalist on the planet? That can’t be done, either.
May 11, 2007 at 9:26 pm
In reality, no one should make sweeping generalisations about bloggers. There are just too many of them (us) to categorise and define with a few paragraphs.
The fact is, Bullard is right in some senses: Think about Livejournal and its throngs of idiots. I’ve read the blogs of people I went to university with… they post all manners of stupid things. They don’t gun down their peers, but they partly fit Bullard’s description. blogs.myspace.com will elicit even worse forms of online authors.
However, some bloggers are indeed trained writers, savvy business-people and just as qualified to put finger-to-keyboard as Mr. Bullard. How about I write a paragraph and sum up every print journalist on the planet? That can’t be done, either.
May 13, 2007 at 8:49 am
David Bullard launches his Blog today:
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/Columnists/DavidBu...
May 13, 2007 at 10:29 am
I just left this comment on Bully’s blog, lets see if it gets the freedom of speech it deserves….
So tell me Bullard why do you have a blog now? Since us bedwetters who belong to the “lifes losers lounge” as you so nicely put it? Well welcome to the club. I look forward to your attempt at maintaining this blog. Next time do us all a favour and keep your mouth shut. Here is a quote I would like to share with you ….
“The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.” Sun Tzu, Art of War
Now I am navigating off this page to get back to work where I just got paid 25, 000 US $ to programme a few lines of code for a software company. Us bloggers are not brainless wankers as you think we are. If it were not for us you would not be blogging. Welcome Bully you get a platinum pass to our world.
May 13, 2007 at 10:49 am
David Bullard launches his Blog today:
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/Columnists/DavidBullard/Article.aspx?id=458843
May 13, 2007 at 12:29 pm
I just left this comment on Bully’s blog, lets see if it gets the freedom of speech it deserves….
So tell me Bullard why do you have a blog now? Since us bedwetters who belong to the “lifes losers lounge” as you so nicely put it? Well welcome to the club. I look forward to your attempt at maintaining this blog. Next time do us all a favour and keep your mouth shut. Here is a quote I would like to share with you ….
“The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.” Sun Tzu, Art of War
Now I am navigating off this page to get back to work where I just got paid 25, 000 US $ to programme a few lines of code for a software company. Us bloggers are not brainless wankers as you think we are. If it were not for us you would not be blogging. Welcome Bully you get a platinum pass to our world.
May 13, 2007 at 3:36 pm
I like Bullard and his column. What you apparently fail to understand is that his knowledge (or lack thereof) regarding on line self-publishing is absolutely immaterial. The man can write…and well…and the publishing venue is irrelevant.
After reading your lengthy comment on Bullard’s blog, I came here to see if you were really as puffed-up with your own sense of self-importance as you appeared to be there. Yup, you are. I also noticed that you seem to try making yourself look smart and capable by criticising others and trying to make them look stupid and incompetent. Pretty transparent and a poor reflection on you and your intellectual honesty.
You have completely missed Bullard’s points and are hanging your pride on having bested a strawman of your own making. Could you do as well addressing Bullard on his own points? Somehow I doubt it.
What Bullard has that you have yet to acquire is subtlety, focus, respect for skills of others, and the ability to make a point while eschewing the kind of self-aggrandizing that appears to be at the core of your style.
You have a lot yet to learn.
May 13, 2007 at 3:49 pm
May 13, 2007 at 4:16 pm
BWAHAHAHAHA! Sweet Violet oooooh you gonna get your ass kicked now.
May 13, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Oh, and if you’re not the same person as per the first paragraph, my apologies, but at least the second point still applies.
May 13, 2007 at 4:30 pm
I actually agree with Sweet Violet here. I checked out her blog and it definitely lends a lot of credibility to what David Bullard was saying in his column last week. In particular:
May 13, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Vinny’s point here bears highlighting - “this entire BullardGate issue is just a whole lot of fun! Lighten up!”
I think a lot of the indignant ranting that certain members of the blog community have responded with is perhaps a case of the shoe fitting a little too uncomfortably well
May 13, 2007 at 5:36 pm
I like Bullard and his column. What you apparently fail to understand is that his knowledge (or lack thereof) regarding on line self-publishing is absolutely immaterial. The man can write…and well…and the publishing venue is irrelevant.
After reading your lengthy comment on Bullard’s blog, I came here to see if you were really as puffed-up with your own sense of self-importance as you appeared to be there. Yup, you are. I also noticed that you seem to try making yourself look smart and capable by criticising others and trying to make them look stupid and incompetent. Pretty transparent and a poor reflection on you and your intellectual honesty.
You have completely missed Bullard’s points and are hanging your pride on having bested a strawman of your own making. Could you do as well addressing Bullard on his own points? Somehow I doubt it.
What Bullard has that you have yet to acquire is subtlety, focus, respect for skills of others, and the ability to make a point while eschewing the kind of self-aggrandizing that appears to be at the core of your style.
You have a lot yet to learn.
May 13, 2007 at 5:49 pm
May 13, 2007 at 6:16 pm
BWAHAHAHAHA! Sweet Violet oooooh you gonna get your ass kicked now.
May 13, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Oh, and if you’re not the same person as per the first paragraph, my apologies, but at least the second point still applies.
May 13, 2007 at 6:30 pm
I actually agree with Sweet Violet here. I checked out her blog and it definitely lends a lot of credibility to what David Bullard was saying in his column last week. In particular:
May 13, 2007 at 6:40 pm
Vinny’s point here bears highlighting - “this entire BullardGate issue is just a whole lot of fun! Lighten up!”
I think a lot of the indignant ranting that certain members of the blog community have responded with is perhaps a case of the shoe fitting a little too uncomfortably well
May 16, 2007 at 11:36 am
I think most of the people in my country, South Africa, (and not just David Bullard) are getting to grips of the power of the new media. And people like Vincent Maher get shot for going against the wind, which, ironically, is the breeze of the day and forth. You are right. The likes of the David’s needs to catch, and do so fast before their bosses resign, for their publication spots may need to move, permanently, online. Shitting on a chair that you one day going to sit on is not very smart at all. And I see with the launch of the bullog that David Bullard is already sitting on that chair. But has he wiped it first?
May 16, 2007 at 1:36 pm
I think most of the people in my country, South Africa, (and not just David Bullard) are getting to grips of the power of the new media. And people like Vincent Maher get shot for going against the wind, which, ironically, is the breeze of the day and forth. You are right. The likes of the David’s needs to catch, and do so fast before their bosses resign, for their publication spots may need to move, permanently, online. Shitting on a chair that you one day going to sit on is not very smart at all. And I see with the launch of the bullog that David Bullard is already sitting on that chair. But has he wiped it first?
May 16, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Has anyone seen Bully’s latest retort? Someone pass him some laxatives.
May 16, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Has anyone seen Bully’s latest retort? Someone pass him some laxatives.
May 17, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Bullard’s right. Most blogs are exactly as he describes them; a complete waste of everyone’s time.
May 17, 2007 at 3:30 pm
sometimes a waste of space, but in the end it is you who decides if and how much time you spend on useless blogs. so please dont try and speak for everyone: cause thats me too.
May 17, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Bullard’s right. Most blogs are exactly as he describes them; a complete waste of everyone’s time.
May 17, 2007 at 5:30 pm
sometimes a waste of space, but in the end it is you who decides if and how much time you spend on useless blogs. so please dont try and speak for everyone: cause thats me too.
May 25, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Some blogs are full of useful information.
May 25, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Some blogs are full of useful information.
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