I subscribe to (as of today) 248 different RSS feeds, and I follow 126 people on Twitter. Some of the feeds belong to friends or people I know personally, but most don’t, and the same goes for the people I follow on Twitter. I tend to follow and subscribe to “thinkers” – people whose writing I admire, who are interesting or entertaining, or who give me lots of links to other useful (and not-so-useful) information.
Of course a bunch of the feeds I subscribe to are related to technology and software development. Those feeds are really a mixed bag. In fact, just today I went through and unsubbed a few things because I found they weren’t really very useful or interesting or even relevant.
Here’s something I’ve found about technology bloggers and other such “personalities” – a lot of them don’t impress me. I’m not going to name any names, but there are certain “big” or well-known bloggers out there that I’ve tried to follow, and find that I just can’t, because they have NOTHING to say to me. They are people who are nearly revered among other people that I do respect, admire, and find interesting. But to me they’re boring and useless at best; loud, obnoxious, and bloviating at worst.
It’s like I was at this conference/training thing once, and a friend of mine was RAVING about one of the presenters, basically making him out to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. I sat in one of his sessions and promptly decided to never attend another. What my friend found so great I couldn’t understand, because to me the guy was too loud, too full of himself, and basically taking it for granted that everyone in the room loved him so much they would take every nugget of bullshit that he spewed as the unquestionable truth, and love him even more for it.
I, as you can see, was just not impressed.
So what am I saying here? Not much, really. See, I don’t want to piss people off by naming names. But if I could, wow…I’d really like to tell some well-known “gurus” how full of themselves I think they are.
