Scoble Catches Winer Disease
Apparently it’s now all about Robert. When someone links to the New York Times instead of him, it’s a direct personal assault, not that we happen to read the New York Times more than Scoble so we never even noticed his original piece, or that we prefer a well-written text piece to a long streaming video.
P.S. Scoble was more interesting when he was blogging from inside Microsoft. That at least gave him a perspective most people did not have. Now he’s just one of dozens of independent bloggers.
January 29th, 2007 at 12:34 PM
What’s a “Winer”? Did you mean to write “Whiner”? In that case I feel obliged to point out that you yourself have caught that disease one or two times before…
http://cafe.elharo.com/web/sun-loses-a-sale/
We all do from time to time, I guess.
regards,
m
January 29th, 2007 at 4:54 PM
It is correctly spelled. Winer disease is a particular form of egocentric paranoia in which one assumes that other people’s failure to pay sufficient attention to one’s achievements is a direct personal slight and attack, rather than an indication of one’s own insignificance or inability to get along with other people.