Despised

Archive for March, 2008

Those few of you who bother to read my ramblings will have noticed two things.

I don’t blog much
I only blog when I am irritated by something

Nothing much wrong with that, other than a bit of a hit for my immortal soul somewhere down the line.

So, I hear you ask, exactly what has pissed you off today?

Well, appropriately, it is bloggers who post something controversial or irritating just to provoke others into linking to them – the supposed value of a link outweighing any negative comments that might be contained in the reference.

Exponents of linkbait blogging are worse than ’scum of the earth’, they are ’scum of the earth and proud of it’.

Of course one of the problems I now face is to point you to an example, but I can’t, can I, ‘cos that’s what they want me to do.

Maybe I can give a halfway house solution then – hows about this: Doug’s Mouthpiece on Mad SEOs

So why the link in this case?

Well Doug isn’t as bad as he would like us to think – he is just ‘trying‘ to be a linkbaiter, but all of us who know him know that it won’t last more than two weeks  

More importantly, he has carefully chosen a bunch of mad and eccentric SEOs to make fun of, which means that in one case he is making linkbait out of the biggest ‘master baiter’ of recent times (the bald one with the pelican’s pouch where other people have a neck) – so that is worth pointing out for the mild irony.
(obviously, he couldn’t put me in there as I am not fat, not eccentric and certainly not mad)

But hopefully, that makes the point – people will link to that ‘cos it is funny/insulting/daft or whatever – and that is fine – but it wasn’t written to be funny/insulting/daft – it was written to provoke links, and that is, of course worthy of my spite.

Those bits of the ‘blogosphere’ that aren’t mutual masturbation now resemble a collection of maladjusted children all happy to do anything as long as it gets some attention.

Look at me everybody, I hate linkbaiters – look, this is me making fun of them, see I am weeing on them – hahahaha hahaha haha….. ha…