I was about to comment on the whole slapfest at Gnomedex, relishing in the fact, of course, that I am on the other side of the continent, and am absolutely unqualified to write about any of the high school drama going on.
However, I did stumble upon Ethan Kaplan’s blog today — the chap who was at Mesh this year, and who is also the head technology guy for Warner Bros., and who is also wicked smart (who writes a great angry blog — not always angry, but angry sometimes in a good way), and I think he pretty much sums up a lot of sentiment in one sentence:
We pay attention to some stupid fight between overweight white guys inside a conference hall, where outside there are significant problems that we ignore for the sake of our own false prophet building.
Allen Stern remarked over at Mat Ingram’s blog: “ever notice that the drama centers around less than 5 people?”
I think the answer is an unequivocal “YES”. Which should be followed up by an addendum. “Said drama is almost always self-centered navel gazing, which often has no bearing outside of the self-centered navel gazing technology side of the blogosphere.” [yours truly sometimes guilty of that too, however].
