04/29/05
06:10:34 pm, Categories: blogs & blogging
JupiterMedia CEO thinks all blogs are worthless
Alan Meckler, Jupiter Media CEO, says, "About 99.99% of all blogs are essentially worthless."
In their estimate would that include their blog, or Alan's blog? I think so. Here's Alan's April 19th entry:
Sleepless in Tokyo
It is near midnight in Tokyo on Tuesday (the posting time of this entry will be incorrect as it is timed with Jupitermedia's servers in Darien, Connecticut USA whereas I am in Tokyo).
I arrived here a few hours ago and had a dinner meeting. Now I am catching up on email and attempting to stay up until 1:00AM so that I can "get onto an Asian sleep pattern." Anyway, I was checking out a bit of history a few minutes ago about the origin of our JupiterWeb properties and came across a 1994 interview in which I believe I created the concept (that is now the rage) of horizontal and vertical Web sites.
Well, isn't that nice...
The purpose of Jupiter Media blogs is to create sales leads, something that adds value for them and them only. By their own definition, they are not a blog. A blog "...is a [w]eb page that serves as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual".
How could someone that doesn't even know what a weblog is make a claim that, essentially, all weblogs are worthless?
Worth is relative, something that he himself should know.
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