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Blog: Paul Thurrot Needs To Stop Writing Opinion Columns | |
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| Time: 19:05 EST/00:05 GMT | News Source: *Linked Within Post* | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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In the tech journalism world, there are three types of people: journalists who writes about tech, nerds who write about tech, and nerds who are journalists. Often, you’ll get the best and most reliable information from nerds who write about tech, you’ll get above average information from nerds who are journalists, and you’ll often get inaccurate or poor information from journalists who write about tech. Guess which category Paul Thurrot falls under? Yeah, he’s a journalist who writes about tech. That’s his job: to write stories which will sell subscriptions, and generate ad revenue. I’m not saying he’s completely sold out and only writes for the green, but I am saying that he isn’t always in search of the whole truth and he definitely isn’t worried about giving you the entire story. | ||
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| #1 By 35699 (66.68.38.17) at 8/3/2005 1:05:55 AM |
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What a cynic Ryan Hoffman is. I'm one of those people he couldn't care less about - a person who makes their business with tech, and who reads journalists who write about tech. I might also joke around sometimes about being a nerd, but I do always remember that the purpose of tech for me and most of the people in the real world is to make businesses work.
I really despise self-serving zealots who make up controversies to promote their own narrow self-important view of the world. They are too wuick to scream "sold out" - the political equivalent to the Pythonesque "burn them". They think they're on a holy mission, and BTW the only holy mission in the world. Now that the first public beta of IE and Vista is out, all these types are crawling out from under the woodwork. One the one side, we have people like Ryan blindly defending the ship (IE) no matter what. On the other we have these self-professed experts saying the entire Vista franchise is DOA. Only they can't decide if Macs or Linux freeware is what should be whipped into all our brains. Paul Thurrot has always been in the middle - until this IE "boycott" suggestion. Paul has always been a very steady, reliable, and leading-edge source of news for years and years. Jumping on his case is absurd, he has done more good for the MS community that Ryan Hoffman ever has, or probably ever will. I am concerned that Paul could fall into a trap - the "Dan Rather" school of journalism where suddenly the journalists opinion is more important than simply fairly reporting the facts so that the readers can make up their own minds. I hope he is not going there... and I know he is better than that. Paul has made the occasional technical mistake, and they are generally harmless. His perspective as an obviously "technical lightweight" is GOOD for his readers - because that's what 99.9999% of the world out there is (the ones who buy our products, remember?). I do think that his "boycott" statement is a mistake. I'd like to see him stick to information delivery (that he handles so well) instead of making wild suggestions. Boycott IE? No way! Kindly remember that we've written our business apps to the IE object model and we won't be risking those apps for somebody's freeware zealotry just because it's trendy in some circles... But Microsoft does absolutely need to do a better job with the standards. Bug fixes and security are very very very important and have to be priority one (and don't forget that all those other browsers are quietly fixing their own heinous bugs too). But adherence to (real) standards is also important for several reasons, the major one in this case being that it will attract and retain developers to the IE platform. It can be a rallying point. And that's what MS needs now. Not a bunch of people who whine and keep playing IE music while the ship is going down (it's got too many of those already), but people who can take charge and lead the charge back up the ladder rung by rung. Adherence to the majority of standards (and only the majority, nobody - despite what they claim - meets them all) is the perfect way to demonstrate that the company is capable of maturing and can still lead the world. And I mean lead, not rest on it's laurels or it's market share. After watching IE fall faster and faster over the past several months, I really have to wonder what has happened to IE inside MS. I really have to wonder where the old can-do MS developers went to... not the ones who turned zealots themselves and went too far but the ones who used to pull off some *really* tremendous and great things. This post was edited by jwfisher on Wednesday, August 03, 2005 at 01:35. |
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