Internet Celebrities
You got to love someone who fires away tirades like this:
I hate internet celebrities because they cannot imagine a world without their Macbooks and their wi-fi. They natter away incessantly in their insulated little worlds where everyone drinks soy lattes and fires off tweets from their iPhones when not doing interviews with that pest Robert Scoble on his Nokia N95.
Beyond Bittorent throttling and spectrum auctions, internet celebrities have little sense of political obligation or social justice. They are predominantly white and middle class, and so of course they fail to recognize their own privileged socioeconomic status. But don’t tell our internet celebs any of this, because if over 5,000 people are following them on Twitter, then all must be well in the cosmos.
Internet celebrities are the incessant cheerleaders for an overhyped digital revolution. Their lives are based around an endless series of shameless attempts at self-promotion. If they are not competing to see who can amass the most followers on Twitter or Facebook, then they are scheming to get their name on the frontpage of Valleywag. It is all very juvenile, if not predictable.
And this, from another post:
I am always suspicious when I see web design being referred to as an heroic enterprise. As far as I can tell, the designers all volunteered—none were conscripted. Also, the world does not revolve around web design alone, and nor should our lives. It is for the best that we take the design cap off every now and again, if only so that we can see how the rest of the world is living.
Believe it or not, but some of us have loved ones that would prefer that we didn’t come home from work only to bury ourselves into our laptops.
