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		<title>Dave Winer falls for it</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Winer writes that Techmeme is &#8220;officially&#8221; a cesspool, now that bloggers will write linkbait just to get on the Techmeme leaderboard. (Little-known fact: all search engines are also cesspools by the same reasoning.) Specifically, he singles out Jason Calacanis and Robert Scoble for writing attention-getting linkbait pieces (much like he himself is doing): &#8220;I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/10/04/techmemeIsOfficiallyACessp.html">Dave Winer writes</a> that <a href="http://techmeme.com/">Techmeme</a> is &#8220;officially&#8221; a cesspool, now that bloggers will write linkbait just to get on the <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/lb">Techmeme leaderboard</a>.  (Little-known fact: all search engines are also cesspools by the same reasoning.)  Specifically, he singles out <a href="http://www.calacanis.com/2007/10/03/web-3-0-the-official-definition/">Jason Calacanis</a> and <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2007/10/01/techmeme-list-heralds-death-of-blogging/">Robert Scoble</a> for writing attention-getting linkbait pieces (much like he himself is doing):</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m thinking of this idiotic post by an idiot [Jason] who&#8217;s known for saying idiotic things just to get attention.&#8221; <a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/10/04/techmemeIsOfficiallyACessp.html#p4">#</a></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Scoble [...] is rapidly rising. How&#8217;s he doing it? By saying extreme things that people will react to. Scoble ain&#8217;t no idiot. If he wants to rise on the list, he rises.&#8221; <a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/10/04/techmemeIsOfficiallyACessp.html#p5">#</a></p></blockquote>
<p>So Jason&#8217;s an idiot, Scoble &#8220;ain&#8217;t no idiot,&#8221; and the verdict on Dave Winer, who fell for both bloggers&#8217; linkbait, is still out.</p>
<p>P.S. Dave &#8211; what&#8217;s up with the tinyurl links? If you need more disk space on your server to handle all of the extra bytes needed by full-length URLs, I&#8217;ll take up a collection to buy you some more storage.</p>
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