Avoid Thomas Hawk

I saw a link that apparently talked about how the music industry took Steve Jobs' bait.  Sure, Steve Jobs either wins because they remove DRM, or he wins in the court of public opinion as he gets people talking about DRM and how silly/futile it is.

So I clicked the link and read a lot of words that didn't really go anywhere.  I agree with his main points, but the guy's whole style of writing is immature, circular, and hardly saying anything new*.  I was getting ready to write a post about why 11 year olds shouldn't be trying their hand at detailed market analysis, then I noticed it was written by a CEO.  The CEO of a Flickr clone.  A Flickr clone I won't link to because that's what he's constantly trying for, more links.

And I've been to this Flickr clone before.  I think it's ugly, and now that I think about it, the only times I look at it are after this Thomas Hawk fella posts some story that gets linked to.

* sometimes I edit my own writing thoroughly with the express purpose of trying not to write like this, though I don't always succeed.   Thomas Hawk's stuff reads like a very very long scrawl of graffiti on a bathroom stall, and from what I can tell, it never gets any better.