Comments on: Blogger Don’t Preach (I’m Keeping the Laptop) http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/ Joey deVilla's Personal Blog Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:46:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8623 Anonymous Tue, 02 Jan 2007 16:44:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8623 Congratulations on your new system Joey. You put a respectable blog together with credibility and the only people complaining are the have-nots. For anybody that has issues with freebies you have absolutely no clue about what the blogosphere is for. People have been getting freebies for review since blogs began...or shortly thereafter. Hell, how long has blogcritics.com been on the table? From books, to concert tickets, to free software, to video cards and now even laptops are being reviewed and kept. Personally, I'm just looking for a list of those people that got the machines so I can keep an eye on what Vista looks like. Congratulations on your new system Joey. You put a respectable blog together with credibility and the only people complaining are the have-nots.

For anybody that has issues with freebies you have absolutely no clue about what the blogosphere is for. People have been getting freebies for review since blogs began…or shortly thereafter. Hell, how long has blogcritics.com been on the table? From books, to concert tickets, to free software, to video cards and now even laptops are being reviewed and kept.

Personally, I’m just looking for a list of those people that got the machines so I can keep an eye on what Vista looks like.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8620 Anonymous Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:44:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8620 I'll see your reference to Joel and raise with <cite>Daring Fireball</cite>, who in response to the claim in Joel's article that his site is non-profit and ad-free <a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2006/december#fri-29-joel_ads" rel="nofollow">writes</a>: <blockquote>Ad-free and non-profit, eh? I count 99 current job listings on <a href="http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp" rel="nofollow">jobs.joelonsoftware.com</a>, which, at the listed price of $350, amounts to $35,650 in revenue in the last 21 days.</blockquote> Between me, who accepts the occasional freebie and fully discloses it and Joel, who claims piety and conveniently forgets facts, I'll pick me every time. I’ll see your reference to Joel and raise with Daring Fireball, who in response to the claim in Joel’s article that his site is non-profit and ad-free writes:

Ad-free and non-profit, eh? I count 99 current job listings on jobs.joelonsoftware.com, which, at the listed price of $350, amounts to $35,650 in revenue in the last 21 days.

Between me, who accepts the occasional freebie and fully discloses it and Joel, who claims piety and conveniently forgets facts, I’ll pick me every time.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8618 Anonymous Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:17:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8618 Careful now. By summoning the baloney detection kit in the manner you have, you're doing a number of the 'things you shouldnt do' at the end of that document (excluded middle leaps to mind, for a start). Careful now. By summoning the baloney detection kit in the manner you have, you’re doing a number of the ‘things you shouldnt do’ at the end of that document (excluded middle leaps to mind, for a start).

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8622 Anonymous Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:15:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8622 You're one sick dude, Nicanor. <em>Green Party.</em> Yeesh. You’re one sick dude, Nicanor. Green Party. Yeesh.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8617 Anonymous Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:47:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8617 > Oh, bite me, Anonymous. Ooh, good argument. > There's no rationalizing here: I'm just putting my > cards on the table. Sure, but that alone does not put you out of reach of influence, or if nothing else, the perception of it. How much is your credibility worth to you? More than the cost of a cool notebook computer? > Perhaps you can start your own successful blog, after > which you'll be free to down freebies and write a post > full of sanctimonious claptrap about the whole > experience. Ah, standards = sanctimony. And they're not for the <em>real</em> world anyway. I refer you and your patient readers to Carl Sagan's <a href="http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/W/Jonathan.D.Wren-1/The%20Fine%20Art%20of%20Baloney%20Detection.htm" rel="nofollow"> The Fine Art of Baloney Detection</a>. Have a nice day. :-) > Oh, bite me, Anonymous.

Ooh, good argument.

> There’s no rationalizing here: I’m just putting my

> cards on the table.

Sure, but that alone does not put you out of reach of influence, or if nothing else, the perception of it. How much is your credibility worth to you? More than the cost of a cool notebook computer?

> Perhaps you can start your own successful blog, after

> which you’ll be free to down freebies and write a post

> full of sanctimonious claptrap about the whole

> experience.

Ah, standards = sanctimony. And they’re not for the real world anyway. I refer you and your patient readers to Carl Sagan’s The Fine Art of Baloney Detection.

Have a nice day. :-)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8621 Anonymous Thu, 28 Dec 2006 21:37:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8621 Dear JM dV, Once you're done with your review, I will be more than happy to accept the laptop as a member of both your cultural & peer group communities (I know that you're shivering at the reality of that statement) . Maraming salamat pare. With love & the sweetest of sentiments always, Nicky (PS. FYI, I would use it to surf ebay, porn & Green Party websites.) Dear JM dV,

Once you’re done with your review, I will be more than happy to accept the laptop as a member of both your cultural & peer group communities (I know that you’re shivering at the reality of that statement) . Maraming salamat pare.

With love & the sweetest of sentiments always,

Nicky

(PS. FYI, I would use it to surf ebay, porn & Green Party websites.)

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8616 Anonymous Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:56:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8616 Oh, bite me, Anonymous. There's no rationalizing here: I'm just putting my cards on the table. Perhaps you can start your own successful blog, after which you'll be free to down freebies and write a post full of sanctimonious claptrap about the whole experience. Oh, bite me, Anonymous. There’s no rationalizing here: I’m just putting my cards on the table.

Perhaps you can start your own successful blog, after which you’ll be free to down freebies and write a post full of sanctimonious claptrap about the whole experience.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8619 Anonymous Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:08:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8619 <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/12/28.html" rel="nofollow">Bribing Bloggers</a>, courtesy Joel on Software. Bribing Bloggers, courtesy Joel on Software.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8615 Anonymous Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:54:00 +0000 http://www.joeydevilla.com/2006/12/28/blogger-dont-preach-im-keeping-the-laptop/#comment-8615 Congratulations, Joey! This is a fine collection of rationalizations and sophisms. Congratulations, Joey! This is a fine collection of rationalizations and sophisms.

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