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June 14, 2005
Sendup of Dvorak's To Tag or Not to Tag, That Is the Question
Posted by Stowe Boyd
John Mahler has a glorious parody of Dvorak's To Tag or Not to Tag, That Is the Question:
[ from
Gonzo Engaged: To Troll or Not to Troll, That Is the Question by John C Mahler]
The uninfluential columnists should be defined here. These are people whom you've never heard of, but whom other uninfluential A-list distopianist columnists all know. I reckon there are about 500 of them. He (or she) influences other like-minded columnists, creating a groupthink form of critical mass, just like atomic fission, as they bounce off each other with repetitive cross-links: trackback links, self-congratulatory links, confirmations, and praise-for-their-genius links. BOOM! You get a formidable explosionan A-bomb of groupthink. You could get radiation sickness if you happen to be in the area. Except for PC Magazine, nobody is in the area, so nobody outside the groupthink community really cares about any of this. These explosions are generally self-contained and harmless to the environment.
Goes on to swap Dvorak's use of the word "tag" for "troll" throughout. Delicious!
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