Funny, how everybody is gazing at everybody else’s navel in our little world – disclaimer: I do not consider myself a Web2.0 “celebrity”, simply because I’m not – but even so it’s hard to always keep in mind that we are only talking about a very minor percentage of the world population, so busy are we all trumpeting that we are “building the future.”
Are we?

Loren Feldman’s quite innocent puppet show is now over. He wrote an open letter to Shel Israel, who was the butt of this particular joke, and that letter is quite bitter.
We are, in effect, moving from a situation where Shel Israel would have done himself some good by taking the joke graciously and instead damaged his image by over reacting, to one where Loren Feldman is the one reacting quite poorly – see his comments to his own post.

It would seem that Dave Winer is next. I will not go into details on this one, just read the comments at 1938media.com if you are that curious.

Some background: Shel Israel claims that he only met Feldman once, at SXSW, thus when Feldman writes “You and your crew”, he may be referring to Robert Scobble. True, it would appear that Feldman was fired from PodTech after posting his retarded “TechNigga” video. No link, I do not want Google to find a link from my blog to that. True, Scobble may have helped with the firing business. Honestly, I do not think that Scobble needed to intervene for people to realize of how little value the piece was. OK, there is always the possibility that there was a double layer of sarcasm: Feldman mocking people who rely on such stereotypes.

Well, that’s too bad: Feldman should move on. Israel should move on. There is money and sponsorship for everybody -well, everybody interesting- in the blogging world and I, for one, am reclaiming some much needed free time by unsubscribing from the blogs of people who keep obsessing over their jobs, Arrington, Scobble, and other topics that, while somewhat topical, live at the bottom of my list of things I give a hoot about. Yay!

My favourite blog post was made by Chris Edward and is titled “Loren Feldman: fighting for old media one blogger at a time.” It deliciously underscores the multi-facetted irony of Feldman’s post in such a compact post that it is a treasure of “content vs ego” ratio in my opinion. Suitably entertained, I decided to read more of Edward’s blog posts and found them interesting.

As a result, Chris Edward wins a new reader, others lose an old reader. If more people followed suit, I am sure that the numbers would have a welcome sobering effect on them.

I’m glad I’m not famous.