Stoller alert! The troll has entered the blogosphere!
As Marty Schwimmer notes, Stoller's got hisself a blog.
I hate to drive traffic towards folks who I don't want to encourage - sort of like I don't feed rabid raccoons, or cheer on drunk drivers - but there is one fun and valid reason to link to something you disagree with:
To mock, vilify, or google-bomb.
Trademark troll. Say it with me now! Everybody! With any luck, and a lot of help, he can become the top result for that google search.
[update: a special recognition to John Welch's post at the TTABlog, TTAB says: "It's time to tackle the 'Trademark Trolls", which foreshadowed this post, as well as providing a call to action, not to mention a devilishly cute pic of a presumed TM Troll. Or trademarked troll, perhaps. (For some reason I'm reminded of Posner on Beanie Babies - see Ty, Inc. v. Publications, Int'l (catalog), and Ty v. Softbelly's (knockoffs))]
C'mon, folks. I don't want this effort to be a miserable failure (q.v.).
I also would undercut this post's title by suggesting that having a blog does not, in fact, make one a part of the blogging community. For that, it's necessary to have a certain connection, a relationship if you will, other than predator/prey (or parasite/host) with other bloggers, readers, and the world in general.
I hate to drive traffic towards folks who I don't want to encourage - sort of like I don't feed rabid raccoons, or cheer on drunk drivers - but there is one fun and valid reason to link to something you disagree with:
To mock, vilify, or google-bomb.
Trademark troll. Say it with me now! Everybody! With any luck, and a lot of help, he can become the top result for that google search.
[update: a special recognition to John Welch's post at the TTABlog, TTAB says: "It's time to tackle the 'Trademark Trolls", which foreshadowed this post, as well as providing a call to action, not to mention a devilishly cute pic of a presumed TM Troll. Or trademarked troll, perhaps. (For some reason I'm reminded of Posner on Beanie Babies - see Ty, Inc. v. Publications, Int'l (catalog), and Ty v. Softbelly's (knockoffs))]
C'mon, folks. I don't want this effort to be a miserable failure (q.v.).
I also would undercut this post's title by suggesting that having a blog does not, in fact, make one a part of the blogging community. For that, it's necessary to have a certain connection, a relationship if you will, other than predator/prey (or parasite/host) with other bloggers, readers, and the world in general.
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Posted by Eh Nonymous on
Monday April 17, 2006 at 4:18pm
*Not all comments welcome. Flippant, facetious, fierce, or fatuous, fine. Fraudulent, felonious, fabricated, facially insufficient, and farkin' futile, fuggeddaboutit.