You’re on my A-List.

“Has he [Darren] been in touch with you lately, BB”

Nope! He avoids me like the plague and goes out of his way to not link to me. I know that he reads the Bloke and subscribes to my feed, and yet I’ve often caught him making posts on stories that I was the first to break, but he didn’t me credit.

So unfortunately I’ve seen another side to Darren that others don’t seem to know about.

http://blog.Blog Bloke.com/2006/08/blogosphere-infomercials-making-money.html

Hence, the reason why I didn’t link to him here.

It’s really too bad. I will often use humor and wit to offer my criticisms of so-called a-listers, and I do so in fun (and hopefully constructively as well, or at least I try).

But unfortunately some have skins as thin (and as lethal) as a razor blade. Of course I run the risk of being shunned and flamed (like I have so often been) but I have to be true to myself whatever the cost.

I see so many things going on in the blogosphere that aren’t right. Innocent people are being taken for a ride by the hucksters and their pocketbooks are being emptied. So long as I am able I will speak out against such abuse and unfairness.

1. Scoble’s harmless, isn’t he? He seems like a laid back kinda guy, coming across as pretty much unphased by some fairly vicious point-blank vitriol. I’m not a religious reader, but then his blog doesn’t seem to offer anything of real substance. I’m sure Twitter serves him ideally.

Darren Rowse seems to be buddying up to the cool meerkats and, d’you know, I think he might become more approachable for the effort. Either that or it is a conscious bid to tap into a market that has gone elsewhere for their blogging needs. Has he been in touch with you lately, BB?

2. Of course the blog would go on without them. Many of them were just early adopters, and well done to them for that. Whether they would do any better than anyone else if they started blogging today is an interesting question. Perhaps someone should do a post reviewing their blogs as if they were fresh on the scene. How would they hold up?

3. John Chow is seriously taking the mick these days. The only one who seems to be making any headway from contact with JC is Matt Coddington at New Business Blog. The rest are serving the man himself, and that’s their choice.

But I’m just nibbling at sour grapes because my generous review of John Chow dot Com was not given the JC seal of approval. I’m very pleased about that now, given his recent ungodly “Make Money Online” stipulation.

Benefit? Who am I to say.

You can count on it and thanks for the kudos.

1.None of the one’s mentioned. Snore!
2.Live without!!!!
3.Both

Keep telling it as it is! Kudos!