Slow News Day: "Blogs Aren't Blogs Unless I Say they Are"

A surefire way to drive a little traffic to a blog is to manufacture an argument out of nowhere, using an outrageous statement to draw attention.

Hence, Robert Scoble, who (co-)wrote a bestseller about corporate blogs fires off a provocative statement saying that only websites meeting five criteria decided by a committee at Microsoft several years ago are really blogs.  Everything else is just pretending to be a blog.

Oh, and the moon is made of blue cheese.  I have the committee minutes to prove it.. ;-)

Tags: robertscoble, controversy, traffic, blogs, argument

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Comments

[Serge]

Really? And I thought it was Gouda... Just goes to show everybody can be wrong at some point. :-)

[Ike]

I tried looking it up in Robert's book, but it was not publicly accessible from my house, so therefore it is not a book.

[Saskboy]

moon.google.com confirms the moon is cheese if you zoom in.

[Eric Eggertson]

Thank you, Saskboy! That is the funniest thing I've seen this week, and that includes tape of Tom Cruise's slow descent into parriah status.