I see the Gruaniuad has its finger firmly on the pulse again. According to them, the ten most influential people in the digital world are:
1. Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google. (Obo rating: fair enough.)
2. Steve Jobs of Apple. (Obo rating: bit tenuous, but I'll go with it.)
3. Steve Ballmer of Microsoft. (Obo rating: you're having a fucking laugh, aren't you? How can you take a cunt like this seriously?)
4. Ashley Highfield of Project Kangaroo. (Obo rating: Give me a break!)
5. Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post. (Obo rating: OK, I'll go with that.)
6. Joanna Shields of AOL. (Obo rating: Who???)
7. Guido Fawkes, scalper of trough-snufflers. (Obo rating: Yep.)
8. Erik Huggers of the BBC. (Obo rating: Who???)
9. Emily Bell of the Graun. (Obo rating: Brown-nosing the boss? Never fucking heard of her.)
10. Robert Scoble of the Scobleizer blog. (Obo rating: Who???)
It's apparent to me that the Graun has entirely missed what the real world is doing and is up itself along with all the new media luvvies, and / or it's aggravated with people who command massive amounts of online power, like Matt Drudge or Perez Hilton.
I mean, for fuck's sake, Ashley Highfield? Although he's ex-BBC and has all the right-on credentials the Graun would obviously salivate over, Project Kangaroo is not exactly going to change fucking anything.
Emily Bell? Jesus, the Graun can't even keep the news website up without regular fuckups.
Erik Huggers? Stop fucking wasting license payers' money on wanky web shit and produce some decent programs, you cock-snaffling cuntwaft.
Joanna Shields is in because she got lucky, not because she knew what she was doing.
And Robert Scoble ... well, yawn, fucking yawn. Why not Cringely or someone who actually knows stuff and doesn't just wank over the latest toys? 87 posts about his fucking 3G iPhone, for the love of Christ!
I'm pleased to see that the Graun is as accurate in new technology as it is in everything else. Apart from the most obvious, self-evident truths, if the Graun says "go forward", do a U-turn and go the other way.
3 comments:
I keep telling not to read that shite, you mong. You'll make yourself unwell
Im surprised the grauniad could spell any of the fuckers name's properly. Probably got the work experience girl to do a quick web search and printed the winky wanky results as an article. Just goes to show as you said the msm has no fucking idea abput the online world.
p.s great blog.
What about Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins? What about Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw?
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