iPad Idiocy
March 13th, 2010
Or more specifically, the nonsense that some sites are propagating in the name of the iPad. I know they’re just trying to garner page-views by starting controversy, but it’s still sheer nonsense nonetheless. Here’s a quick sampling:
5 Reasons Why We Are Already Depressed About The iPad — Seriously? This article wouldn’t even be worth mentioning except to question the waste of ad dollars on the site for this sort of drivel. I know the iPad is big news, but this sorry excuse for a hack journalist (yeah, Tim Difford, I’m talking to you) shouldn’t be collecting a paycheck with so many other worthy people out of a job.



In the last 4 years, Akismet has handled 102,497 spam comments. That’s better than 25k spam messages a year. Pretty impressive when you consider that Google Analytics says the site had less than 10k pageviews last year. I know that the spambots do not generate trackable pageviews, but it’s pretty sad that more log space and energy goes into serving them than legitimate site visitors.

After more than 20 years as an Apple user, and well over a decade as an investor, it’s articles like this one that have me considering dumping my stock:
