Snarkers
: Thanks for all the very nice comments, below, regarding my career move. Since I’m a lifelong wage slave and a chicken, it’s especially appreciated. But blog will still be blogs and so there are snarky comments even on this topic (I can imagine some of these commenters snarking about pictures of a bloggers’ new baby: “Ewwww, looks like Michael Moore!”). The snark:
So now you’re a full-time hypester eh?
A classic case of jumping on a bandwagon without knowing what’s really going on. But we live in an age of dilettantes and lightweights. 15-second attention spans demand 15-second pundits and prognosticators. I can just see Gladwell writing a retrospective on this craze in a year or two…
Well, actually, I’d say that Gladwell is just a craze.