Anil Dash: ‘Fake Steve Jobs and the Triumph of Blogs’

Anil Dash, on the fact that it was Daniel Lyons who wrote Forbes’s much-maligned 2005 cover story, “Attack of the Blogs”, which slammed bloggers for being anonymous and unaccountable:

My initial temptation was to mark Lyons as a hypocrite. Upon reflection, it seems there’s a more profound lesson: The benefits of blogging for one’s career or business are so profound that they were even able to persuade a dedicated detractor.

★ Monday, 6 August 2007