I’ve gotten several emails over the past few days asking why I haven’t commented on Dave’s threat to quit blogging
The reason for having ignored it thus far is two-fold: first, I really think this is just attention-whoring. He’s played this game before, he just likes to see the whole of his sycophancy get all bent out of shape over his departure. He’s done it before. Even if he quits Scripting News now, odds are that he’ll either start blogging somewhere else, or he’ll come back to Scripting News (or both).
The second reason is, frankly, I think he’s right: the blogosphere doesn’t need him (although I’d leave off the ‘anymore’ part).
In closing: we should be so lucky, but we won’t be.
You really should comment on this. The amount of material is just too much to pass up in his post about this. Just too much. Can’t wait till he dissappears.
I notice Scoble today is saying he needs a change…
They must be joined at the hip:
DW: Memeorandum sucks RS: I’ve stopped using meme trackers…
DW: Sob, I’m fed up with this blog stuff (looks up to see if anyone noticed) RS: I’m fed up with blogging…oh wait, it’s my job, erm…
Also, I love Dave’s current whine-fest about Amazon using SOAP. It’s because, even though it seems he helped sketch SOAP out, he can’t program with it.
Obviously, we should all be using XML-RPC rather than SOAP, because its sufficiently easy for Dave to comprehend. Doesn’t matter its not natively supported on environments like, you know that little thing, .NET.
“Some people like Python, some like Ruby, and some like environments that other people don’t think of as environments. Roml’s hypothesis only works in a monoculture; sometimes it looks like there is only one development environment that matters, but there’s always someone, who’s doing something important, who isn’t using the consensus platform.”
Yep, and they all support SOAP! Welcome to classes not structs Dave!
There’s a virtual Dave and a real one. Here, you’re reading the virtual one. Some people hate this guy, some people love him. Lots of people invent new features of this guy, that are so different from the real guy that if the real guy met the other people’s version of the virtual guy, he would line up to punch him in the nose too.
Dear “You Guys Suck”:
I think that you are currently in the sycophant circle of Dave. He wrote that bit as something that will allow you to continue to accept Dave even though many others don’t. It is blatant manipulation. I find though that Dave’s syncophants are usually either somewhat conscious of the exchange-relationship they have with Dave and thus are able to benefit from it or they are lacking in insight. Either way, this phenomenon on the net of Dave and his sycophants has been incredibly interesting to watch.
-NaS
I wonder if his mom will talk him out of quitting again?
Not a Sycophant, incredibly interesting?