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   And Blog commenting too!

   

   some old guy, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 7:57am

   
   

   Now that the economy sucks, I would never consider donating my (subjectively) insightful comments to my favorite blogs.
   
   No sirree... Never. Oh wait. I just did. huh...

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   I guess that he missed...

   

   ehrichweiss, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 8:16am

   
   

   He missed the fact that backyard gardening actually saves money. I regularly spend about $10-20 on gardening every year but get back around $200+ in veggies.
   
   He also missed that people who have jam sessions in their homes aren't doing it because they want to get paid, they're doing it because it's free(mostly) and fun.
   
   I won't even go into the rest.

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   Andrew Keen is a tool

   

   Siburmax, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 8:17am

   
   

   Andrew Keen is a tool. That's it. Nothing more to say. I said it all when I said, Andrew Keen is a tool.

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   Ima Fish, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 8:30am

   
   

   Does this mean I can stop mowing the lawn? I haven't been paid to mow a lawn since I was 17.

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   Re: Ima Fish

   

   some old guy, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 8:42am

   
   

   I hereby give you my permission.

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   Re: Re: Ima Fish

   

   Lonnie E. Holder, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 8:43am

   
   

   In fact, if you are finding mowing the lawn that pleasurable, come do mine too.

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   Re: Re: Re: Ima Fish

   

   Anonymous Coward, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 8:56am

   
   

   mmmm MMmmmm MMMMMMMM the vibrations in my hand, the power I control, the smell of freshly cut grass!! I'm going to mow my lawn TWICE today!

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   Re: I guess that he missed...

   

   jonnyq, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 9:09am

   
   

   Umm.. the way I read the quoted text is that Keen never actually said anything about gardening or basketball, but that the author was illustrating the absurdity of Keen's statement by COMPARING internet activity to gardening and basketball.
   
   I think Mike got the point based on the text of this post, but Mike's headline here is just flat wrong. Of course, I might not have clicked on the headline that was correct: "Andrew Keen Predictions Likened Unto The End Of Gardening And Pickup Basketball"

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   Not enough money

   

   Steve S, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 9:25am

   
   

   I was going to write up a decent response to this story but i realized in these tumultuous financial times it wouldn't be worth my time and energy as you are not paying me enough to dedicate myself to the cause
   
   sorry...

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    Re: Re: I guess that he missed...

    

    Mike (profile), Oct 31st, 2008 @ 9:28am

    
    

    I think Mike got the point based on the text of this post, but Mike's headline here is just flat wrong. Of course, I might not have clicked on the headline that was correct: "Andrew Keen Predictions Likened Unto The End Of Gardening And Pickup Basketball"
    
    The headline is a joke, to play up the absurdity.

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    BoilerBob, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 9:43am

    
    

    I'm sure there's an ex-blogger living in their mom's basement that can do it for a few bucks.

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    Anonymous Coward, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 9:57am

    
    

    I asked you to put your money where you mouth is on starting a music company since you have it all figured out and you told me you have bigger fish to fry. Maybe you should give Keen a break because he might have bigger fish to fry.

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    bobert, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 9:58am

    
    

    You would think one would turn to gardening more so in an economic downturn.. victory garden anyone?

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    mobiGeek, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 10:14am

    
    

    I'm going to argue that there is a somewhat different amount of focus necessary to start a business than to casually contribute to an open source project.

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    Re: Andrew Keen is a tool

    

    Anonymous Coward, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 10:50am

    
    

    A garden tool, even.

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    Re: And Blog commenting too!

    

    Anonymous Coward, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 11:21am

    
    

    Me either... that'll be $5.00...

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    Anonymous Coward, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 12:03pm

    
    

    I still fix people's computers for free.

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    Re: Re: Re: I guess that he missed...

    

    jonnyq, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 12:28pm

    
    

    Which is obvious when you read the post, but not in mah iGoogle RSS =)

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: I guess that he missed...

    

    jonnyq, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 12:34pm

    
    

    While I'm writing useless comments...
    
    On lunch, I discussed with my work buddy (sparked by the post) how lucrative a web site can be if you just just blog troll. You may a blog making the most absurd claims possible (with a little lent credibility) and get other, more reasonable people to link to your blog and bash you. After all, controversy gets more attention.
    
    With that in mind, it's hard for me to tell when an idiot blogger is a troll or not. I mean, some of these idiot bloggers work for respectable web sites (Dvorak for example), but they MUST be trolling for attention based on their posts. I went to Keen's web site and read the comments. Every single one I saw was noting how big an idiot he was. No rebuttal from him, and he obviously didn't delete the unfavorable comments. Smells like a troll to me. He knows he's getting the attention with those absurd viewpoints.
    
    Now that's a business I need into.

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    jonnyq, Oct 31st, 2008 @ 1:52pm

    
    

    There's the type of comment that leaves you dumber and hungry for fish.

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    update

    

    Frank, Nov 1st, 2008 @ 12:50am

    
    

    The recent interesting report saying how the "low-income" customers are buying up the iphone would seem to prove mr keen wrong also. People rarely respond to need with work anymore they just get a credit card.

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    Jake, Nov 1st, 2008 @ 7:38am

    
    

    It's arguable that a lot of people will be devoting time normally occupied by leisure pursuits to things like attending interviews, filling out forms etc. However, I can personally testify that in the current economic climate, finding and applying for every single job you are qualified to do within reasonable commuting distance will still leave you with a lot of spare time.

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I guess that he missed...

    

    nasch, Nov 3rd, 2008 @ 8:52am

    
    

    Dvorak as much as admitted he's a troll. He said something to the effect that he can say something inflammatory about Apple and all the Apple fans come rushing to his web site to post rebuttals (and maybe view ads), and then a couple of weeks later he can post something good about Apple to spark positive comments from Apple supporters and bashing from Apple haters. Or something to that effect, there's a video of it somewhere. It was an impromptu comment to someone at CES or some show like that.

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