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What's the point of this post? What did anyone learn from this? This is a pointless rant that belongs on someone's Facebook wall, not on a blog with thousands o

• jrockway 16y ago
  People actually read his blog intentionally?
• zdw 16y ago
  From my reading of his posts, Dave has great domain specific knowledge, but outside of that he tends give up quickly or jump to conclusions (see article as example) He is one of the Ur-bloggers, having started Userland and been doing a blog-like site for 10+ years, and is often very insightful, but his blog seems to be written for an audience of 1, himself. If you go into it with other expectations, you'll probably be disappointed. In short, don't rag on him - do go for perspective. (this is probably my most meta HN post yet)
  • davewiner 16y ago
    I've been blogging at scripting.com for 13 years. And your explanation of blogging is pretty correct. It's surprising after all this time that people still don't get it, that a blog post is just one person's experience. They're so accustomed to being told that there is a kind of writing that's anything more. That somehow the big publications tap into a well of collective wisdom that's greater than one person's experience. Anyway, thanks for explaining. Some of the people here need to have it laid out for them. :-) BTW, on the third try, the iPhone did fix itself. My friend still went home with the Nexus One, happily.
• davewiner 16y ago
  The point of the post is to relate one person's experience.