My Rant
Please note that there are curse words in the playing of this video but I think it is important to note what a newbie blogger is willing to do to get his name out there. Challenge a 30 year member of the media on the reasons why he has a seven day test unit. ANSWER: He is respected and has earned his credentials and that is enough said for that alone. But Leo Laporte for whatever reason has always purchased his own test units and I always wondered why before and here comes along my asnwer. Some freshmen blogger with a stick up his rectum is pissed because he was unable to get a unit. Leo Laporte has many times said that Sprint’s services are limited and has even told possible users to wait until Verizon brings the unit out in November or January.
Leo Laporte had every reason to jump Mike Arrington because though he runs a very popular blog site he has taken products and reviewed them eight to ten hours after using them. I don’t care where a reporter or tech analysts get’s their limited use products from. Which Leo Laporte very clearly said Mike Arrington continues to have this small-penis envy thing going because he is considered to some not considered a “real journalist”.
On his site he tweeted about a product I also had been signed up on the product as a beta tester as well. I was barely into testing the item with three other people independently when he released the most incompetent eight hour review I have ever seen. As a member of his blog and Twitter list of friends I tweeted and posted a comment on his website and on purpose I did it at 3:31 a.m. so that there would be time for other to see it. By noon the next day I could no longer access his site I called my daughter had her bring up the site it was functional she found the article and noted my comment was not there but did say some of the comments after my time stamped post noted others agreed that less than a day to review a product of anytime was ludicrous. So the result was Mike Arrington had banned my internet protocol address and was no longer a member. So I checked my Twitter friends list I was removed as a friend as well so I called my ISP paid $50 for a new static IP Address got a friend to give me an invite to gmail and re-registered with a slightly altered name removing only letters and I have been since, I also sent the new name to Twitter and imagine that I was accepted back and considered a friend?
I am right there with Mr. Laporte if Arrington wants to get some clout make those questions on the side it is very well known that reporters and analyst’s do so. My experience is with pre-releases of games so I will not go much further for fear I will not be able to patrol Mr. Arrington’s flakey responses on Twitter and every other web 2.0 applications out there. Example his “Twitter” pieces if one was to read without trying Twitter you would never try it, yet it is his number one way of getting people to his out dated looking website. If you’re going to run with the BIG boy’s Mike grow a pair and earn your respect.
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