It's interesting to read Guy talk about Twitter. Twitter's pretty new, and still pretty lawless, so you still get a lot of people really openly discussing how b

It's interesting to read Guy talk about Twitter. Twitter's pretty new, and still pretty lawless, so you still get a lot of people really openly discussing how best to use Twitter to do nothing more than advertise, to self-promote, or to keep the great handjob circle that is the Social Media and SEO Community. Whereas, in most media, this kind of mercenary, soulless, absolutely content-free (how to change the world? What are you adding to the world, besides a lot more plugs for bullshit people don't need—much of it so worthless that it's only about how to do further advertising on twitter!) discussion and broadcasting would be called spam, or junk, or commercial hackery, we seemingly haven't matured to that point yet on the web. As far as I can tell, some of us have really bought the idea that our ruling class—that is, soi-disant 'SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERTS'—should be composed of those people who actually have the least to say. They are Social Media Experts because all they blog or twitter about is blogging and twittering. And why is that? Because their interest, indeed their avocation, is in the medium itself: how to advertise, how to worm their way into people's attention. If they had some field of interest or expertise that they wanted to excel in, they would use their online presences to communicate about it. But they don't; so instead they blog about twittering, and vice versa. Anyway, what's interesting is that this is all above-board and approved of. I can only imagine that the fact that these folks have such an avid fanbase, seemingly enthralled by their newest bloviation on how to 'add value' are really only hanging on because they would like some day to be doing the same thing. Some day, maybe, there will be a Webcock News in addition to a Hacker News, people will catch on to the pernicious effect that these people have, and they will lose their inexplicable prestige. Oh, you know what: I just realized the other reason that Guy still has so many hip, social media plebs debasing themselves in his direction: he's got the money! I should become a Venture Capitalist; then I could find out if hackers give good blowjobs.