dvorak does carrottop
Is anyone suprised that John Dvorak behaved like a complete tool at Gnomedex?
I paid $100 to come to Gnomedex. I paid that money to see people like Tim O'Reilly talk about emergent technology and such. I came to see Dan Gillmor talk about emergent journalism and Chris talk about RSS. I didn't come to have John C. Dvorak behave like Carrottop with powerpoint jokes and bag on a signficant part of the audience
Dvorak is probably the only person in his field who just doesn't get blogs.
Putz.
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I got a photo with him after the con, he didn't realize it was me who walked out. Can we say photoshop conference?
Posted by: Tom Bridge | July 28, 2003 09:24 PM
Gah, can't spell. I mean contest.
Posted by: Tom Bridge | July 28, 2003 09:24 PM
Jeebus, is Dvorak still dismissing blogs? It's amazing that a man who has two separate columns in the SAME magazine could actually talk about self-absorption.
Posted by: Jay Caruso | July 28, 2003 09:26 PM
Dvorak seems to be one of those professional writers who enjoys nothing so much as rubbing the fact in the face of amateur writers and feeling superior about it. Which, really, is just dumb. You could just as easily call Dvorak a wannabe IT guy since he doesn't actually do anything (professionally) to do with tech.
Posted by: dagny | July 28, 2003 09:58 PM
Dvorak long ago lost touch with what is really happening, IT-wise.
The fact that he was invited to speak at all says much about the relevance, or lack thereof, of Gnomedex.
Was he at Debcon? Uh, no. Will he be at Defcon? Uh, no. Has he a clue, really? Uh, ... heh, what do you really think?
How many lines of code do you think he wrote today, or last week, and in what language? heh.
Posted by: Roscoe | July 28, 2003 10:13 PM
I heard that I got dissed in that speech. Something about cats and makes and having to blog and being self-indulgent. Whatever.
Posted by: Kymberlie R. McGuire | July 28, 2003 10:53 PM
Well, the speech was at least a little funny, but I'll agree with everyone--totally not what I paid for, and I'm fully convinced that the guy doesn't know tech from his left foot. O'Reilly, Gillmor, Pirillo and Minar (Google) were all excellent, though, and I learned a lot. I think Gnomedex was very relevant, for that reason. Plus, I made a lot of new friends, got new clients, and have a lot more than a weekend's share of memories. What a blast.
Posted by: Erica | July 28, 2003 11:17 PM
well somebody has to be the computer world's resident jagoff since Guy Kawasaki retired....
Posted by: Jim | July 29, 2003 12:34 AM
You have to cut him a little slack. Even Bill Gates took, what, two years, to climb on board the internet bandwagon.
Posted by: Frank DiSalle | July 29, 2003 11:04 AM
I personally thought it was quite funny that he spend so long talking about how irrelevant blogs are. Next person up was Dan Gillmor talking about how relevant they are. And he was a lot more coherent in his reasoning than Dvorak was!
Posted by: Sunidesus | July 29, 2003 02:41 PM
Good grief! Doesn't anyone have a sense of humor anymore? He was hilarious, and if you don't realize his blog teasing was an act, then just go listen to him Audblog on Cheyenne's site. I couldn't believe how many people got all worked up over his schtick. Get a grip.
Posted by: Solonor | July 29, 2003 10:54 PM