“Why I bought an iPad mini” and “Why I didn’t buy an iPad mini” articles are the height of tech blogger solipsism. No one gives a shit how you spend your money. Shut up and write something interesting, fool.
I don’t give a shit what you just bought, shut up
Why I buy Charmin.
Cuz I gotta take a shit.
Oh yeah? Cottonelle isn’t good enough for your ass, Charmintard?
Why I gotta take a shit.
Cuz I had Mexican for lunch.
Ha! Tell that to Jim and all his music gadget posts…zZzzz….
Bitter much?
I bought a 20oz Pepsi Max. I should write about why I didn’t buy Sprite Zero.
I just bought a Mac mini on craigslist and then ordered 16GB of RAM for it on OWC. Now let me tell you how it changed my life….. zzzzzzzzzz
Interesting how soon this post followed the “my advice is you write what you like” post by Jim
“Here is the one rule that I follow and have followed for the last 20 years of writing: Be honest.”
😉
And I took a photo of my lunch with my new iPad mini.
Look! Here it is!…
Said like a Cottonelle fanboy. Have you even tried the open weave pattern on the new Charmin? Open is better.
I’m a big fan of this site, but I’m apparently someone you now consider a ‘fool’. So what if it’s self-indulgent? If its all the same with you, I’m going to continue writing about what I want to write about, because, you know, that’s what personal blogs are for.
P.S. Yes, I know, total sense of humour failure.
I just learn a new word today: Solipsism form latin Solus and Ipse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
It reminds me of Lorem Ipseum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
It’s an interesting coincidence since, and I agree with you, most tech blogger mix container and contents.
Maybe it’s human!
http://www.loopinsight.com/about/
“Jim Dalrymple is an accomplished guitar player. He’s written about how to record and play music using the Mac for years; that continues today on The Loop.”
lol 😀 I tend to fall for the trap and answer with the reasons why I got X gadget 🙁
Sometimes this blog just cracks me up.
Well, the point i think he’s making, wich i agree on:
“Write what you like if you have an opnion to share, DON’T write a “Why”, “How”, “Should”, “Top” kind article if you feel that it would give you pageviews but you don have shit to say in it.
i didnt buy a mini because I bought a nexus 7.
foolishly, i believed that the Nexus 7 would be the onee android device that would be a good experience….so that would be my excuse to finally buy an android device, and screw around in their dev environment,
i was wrong, its a piece of garbage and when i tookmit to bestbuy for a trade in, all they would offer was plastic vampire teeth….and they were dropped there by some kid at halloween because even he didnt like plastic.
stupid googorola
You Scotttissue haters are what’s wrong with the Internet.
“Here’s why I bought an iPad. Maybe you can relate to my situation and it will help you make your own decision.”
Yeah, that’s just awful. How DARE they.
but he did say ” tech blogger solipsism” which is not quite the same as a personal blog… you can write what you want as long as you’re not doing it for pageviews (sensationalist headlines)