>is there something to know about him aside from being a writer at Wired? does it seem sensible to go around asking crowds why you should care about trends? i

>is there something to know about him aside from being a writer at Wired? does it seem sensible to go around asking crowds why you should care about trends? if you get it, fine; join up. if you don't get it, fine; you're not going to conform to that one, brag about it to your friends. the third option, your option, of trying to convince the crowd that the trend is stupid/ridiculous/worthless/whatever is ineffective and perceived as kind of an anti-social contrarian thing to do by a lot of people. for what it's worth , I hate the phrase too. I think it takes impact away from the actual vulgar word, and it reduces the impact of all vulgarity all together by foisting the word into the common language lexicon, but it's a trend and chances are good that it'll be gone by tomorrow. Cory Doctorow is a pretty decent fiction writer, he's worked with wired, he's worked with the FSF/GNU/EFF in the past, has spoken publicly about a lot of perceived 'issues' that are somehow related to 'tech' as a sector and has been extraordinarily visible to the tech crowds within the United States and likely the rest of the English speaking world.