Sorry, Mr. K, I was going to say fans, but I'm a sucker for alliteration. I'd cite the definition, it doesn't actually imply high paid, but it's a bit more pejorative than I realized when I wrote that. Nothing personal, Microsoft's always been a good investment, and antitrust enforcement won't necessarily change that.
As far as Wendy and her book, I've been following it since the vague citation by Jason Pontin on that cnnfn show, and I'd agree there's clearly book hype going on. But "hype", like "spin", tends to be used like the operational definition for objective and biased, people you agree with vs. people you disagree with. Remember "The Road Ahead"? No book hype there. Then there was "The Road Ahead II: Bill discovers the Internet". Those are both presumably inoperative now, at least legally, we're on to "The Road Behind: I was on top of it all along". All you can do is judge things on their merits, and how they fit in with other bits and pieces.
Cheers, Dan. |
