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The field of online marketing is 80% full of shameless self-promoters who ruin it for the other 20% of us by trying to guise themselves either as knowledgeable experts who mysteriously speak only in buzzwords and of only insanely-broad concepts or as honest brokers who aren’t trying to sell you what they’re actually trying to sell you while they’re trying to sell you on it. You know, it’s how the rest of you feel about our entire field. Microcosms within microcosms. I imagine even the shysters and the blowhards have other shysters and blowhards that they can’t stand.

Uncov is a new blog dedicated to two things: sarcastic cynicism concerning our larger industry and Idiocracy. There are few hobbies dearer to my heart. The other day, they wrote a scathing blog post about the hollow insight of a particular member of the web 2.0 propaganda brigade, Steve Rubel. Rather than reproducing it here, I’ll simply link to it:

http://www.uncov.com/2007/7/17/internets-marketing-serious-business

I did want to add that if more blogs spent more time deconstructing this kind of technowank fluff job nonsense then maybe every time I download an episode of Charlie Rose or flip through my favorite tech news sources, I wouldn’t have to pick through ten pounds of shit to get to one ounce of corn. At the very least, if we could stick a cork in the shitpipe of the self-fellating web 2.0 obsessed AJAX 9000 blogdroids then maybe the signal to noise ratio on our end of the web would level back out to something resembling tolerable.

Just a thought.

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