Show Your Grit, Dear Blog Readers
This past week’s one-on-one debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton was shrouded in civility. The two candidates danced around each other, for the most part, playing nice-nice.
We all know that both sides of the aisle want to appear composed, together and unified. But why then, do I sense the same phony relationship between many bloggers and their readers.
Case in point.
John Chow, who I believe runs a fine blog on being an “evil” media mogul, recently announced a contest with an advertiser, iBusinessTalk. What gets me is that the advertiser’s domain is iBusinessTalk.com. However, when you get to the Website, there are banners everywhere spelled iBUSSINESSTALK.
Whoa.
I know that the experts say there is no correlation between spelling and intelligence. However, how can I take business advice from a Website that can’t even spell the word right? That’s biz 101, no?
Errors happen. In fact this post might be rife with them.
What irks me is that, just like the debate, no one wants to take John Chow to task and say, “Hey dude, the company who’s plastered on your Web site totally lacks credibility.”
I know everyone is desperate to win the contest (you get some free ad space on Mr. Chow’s Website) and make a buck, but I expect more from intelligent bloggers and blog readers. As of this post, 37 comments on Chow’s post, and all of them are just fluffy praise.
C’mon people. Let’s not be sheep! That makes us no better than phony politicos.
What do you think?