It always amazes me how many people like to dismiss TechDumpster and Living in First Life’s comments and arguments simply because we refuse to disclose who we are. Our anonymity is in fact the primary reason we write what we believe to be one of the most honest blogs in the Web 2.0 world. Here is why:
1. Anonymous bloggers have to use logic and can’t just ride on “I’m XYZ so trust me.” When TechDumpster writes a comment, we have to back it up with logic, data, and thought. When people like Michael Arrington and Paul Graham spew their arguments, they usually fail to use any logic. They manage to run on credibility which is shocking given that people like them are shills and snake oil salesmen. TechDumpster has already put both of them to shame.
2. Non-anonymous bloggers lean towards being overly positive for fear of burning bridges. A great example of this is the pussy fight between Kevin Rose and Jason Calcanis. What a joke! These are competitors yet they sit there and openly jerk each other off. For Christ’s sake, does anyone in the Valley have balls anymore? ValleyWag itself serves a role, but it’s more for comedy than any sort of logic. Everyone else is a joke. Om Malik is a good guy but he’s got no teeth and has to keep good relations to keep his show going. Michael Arrington and Duncan Riley are a bunch of babies who can’t stand criticism or anyone who shows how they write crappy articles and accept payments for articles.
Dave McClure is simply a giant tool who can’t even spell properly. Robert Scoble is a pathetic Apple and Facebook fanboy. Many of the VC bloggers have no teeth either for fear of offending any potential deals.
Simply put, anonymous bloggers have no incentive to suck up.
3. We’re not looking for invitations to stupid Valley circle jerk parties or free invites to the next worthless Web 2.0 startup with a name created by a dumb mommy blogger’s 9-month old shill/son. We don’t care. We don’t attend stupid events to tell each other how great we are. We don’t need love from all the sycophants. We tell the truth and we’re here to stay.
4. No payola or conflict of interest for anonymous bloggers. This is a follow-on from item 2. We don’t accept payments for positive OR negative articles. We don’t use PayPerPost and never will. We are not trying to shill our own start-up. Besides that, we have a B2B start-up so shilling it wouldn’t do anything because we already know there are about 200 people in the US who are going to make a buying decision on our product and they sure don’t care about the next social network for the dogs of mommy bloggers who sleep with Michael Arrington.
Summary:
Most Web 2.0 Bloggers = Dishonest sycophantic suckups with lots of conflicts of interest (a.k.a. crooks - see “Richard Nixon“)
TechDumpster & Intelligent Anonymous Bloggers = The voice of truth.
