I agree there is bad reporting and in his example the bad editing that let the story though. I'm interested in hearing where other people find good reporting.
Tech journalists who make no sense
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#22A lot of tech journalism looks like it was written with a markov chain generator.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have no idea what "post cloud world" means, but other than that, I agree with your assessment. There's a difference between "your phrasing screams that you are an outsider and you don't have a full understanding of what you are talking about" and "I truly do not comprehend what you mean." I would be surprised if readers of this site honestly could not translate the buzz-filled marketing speak into what they actuall…
By him saying he's ready for the "post cloud world" shows that Salesforce is aware of the "buzz word" world we live in and that Salesforce is staying on the cutting edge. It seems to me that they are interested in customer retention, being the go-to location for storing important business data, and that their business is much more concerned with having the best and most solid infrastructural, and they aren't simply c…
As a former English-major nutjob, I do see some problems with how those sentences are constructed. The "internal activities and externally" is very awkward phrasing.
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#24Add Cringley to the list, who claims (or rather thinks at: http://www.cringely.com/2011/06/intercontinental-ballistic-a...) that Apple's App store will eliminate software piracy.
If only the world was so much simpler :)
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#25You know what's awesome? That the journalist makes perfect sense to me. This guy is just apparently not the target audience. First off, the more data that Salesforce controls, the better they have locked in their customers... Or the more customers they have. I pity anyone who uses Salesforce and decides to leave for greener pastures. It would be a bloody nightmare. The second clip talks about using social networking…
I can't speak to your personal understanding, of course, but one thing to be wary of is that buzzword-laden speech often forms a tabula rasa . Since it means so little, listeners "fill in the blanks" and make up their own explanation for what it means. It is not surprising that the listener's interpretation closely agrees with their point of view. Thus, people who use a lot of buzzwords can often be perceived as sens…
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#26Irregardless of the synergies we find when enhancing our “web 2.0” ubiquitous utilization, enterprise-quality, shovel-ready progressive monetization schemes, we cannot eschew obfuscation assiduously enough.
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#27Add Cringley to the list, who claims (or rather thinks at: http://www.cringely.com/2011/06/intercontinental-ballistic-a... ) that Apple's App store will eliminate software piracy. If only the world was so much simpler :)
Cringley might be wrong, or right, but at least he writes intelligibly.
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#28I'll give David credit where it's due - Rework is an excellent book, ROR has a great fanbase, and 37Signals products are generally very well executed. However I find myself paying little attention to anything he says because it's all just so negative. I unfollowed him on Twitter because I just found every single one of his tweets to be criticising someone else or someone else's business. There's only so much negativi…
Unfollowing people from Twitter or from your feed-reader is just sane and even required, as sometimes you just need to cut the noise.
But I think that you're going out of your way to criticize David, judging by your other comment too.
Personally I like his opinions; he has a gift of cutting through the bullshit that is refreshing. That doesn't mean that he's always right or that his opinions matter in any way, but the guy has fine taste for what's important for him and you can learn something from that behavior.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I understand the distaste for negativity in general, but if you have a quota on the amount of negativity taken "from one person", then you're judging the person rather than the message. Why not evaluate the argument on its own merits? I'd like to see less discussion of "David" and "Zed"'s peccadillo on this site. A cult around someone's personality flaws is just as vapid as a cult around someone's personality. The we…
I haven't heard that proverb before, and yes, I can see how you can apply it. I think that maybe this is being overanalysed slightly, I don't mean to apply a quota to anyone. I hardly think this qualifies as a 'cult'. I just think that overall very little of what DHH has to say is praising or supportive of anything. Yes, that's judging the person, but only after I've judged the messages for the several months I was r…
For what it's worth, I agree with you 100%. That said, you're fighting a losing battle on this one - the majority of HNN readers seem to think that as long as you've written a famous piece of software, it's perfectly reasonable to carry on like a sniping, petulant child. Spewing vitriol and sarcasm is being "visionary" instead of "douchey."
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#30Kudos for telling it as it is.