The Next Mike Gunderloy
You know I love Mike Gunderloy as much as any heterosexual, god-fearing, code-loving, dude can love another dude. Which is a lot. But you also know that Mike Gunderloy has, for ethical reasons, decided to shun microsoft as much as any heterosexual, god-fearing, code-loving, dude can. Which is a lot. And I respect that. A lot. Word, Mike. Word. But I have the bills. And the cynicism of cynicism, and the 'satire-as-a-defence' and so forth. So I stick with microsoft for the foreseeable. Furthermore, and far sadder: Mike tells us that by the end of this year he plans to give up writing his popular daily microsoft news blog, 'the daily grind'. So the search is on -- where can I get my succinct daily fix of news relevant to my dayjob, without having to trawl through all the muck myself? Who's going to get up early so that I don't have to?
A few contenders have stepped into the arena.... what do you think of them?
I highly recommend all of the above.
But are any of them worthy to be granted:
The Inaugural TimeSnapper Professional 'MikeG.Next' Honorary Award Of Linkblogging Excellence?
This a prestigous prize [I, ah, just invented it, so i should know.] The winner of which will win five (5) timesnapper licenses to distribute on their blog, plus one (1) for themselves.
If any other Micro ISV's want to throw some licenses into the prize pool, please step up! I will thank and link and smile ;-)
Andrew Garrett says this (and a whole lot more) about link blogs:
"A blog that’s nothing but link posts don't serve any real value..."
I disagree altogether. If a link blog is a regular and reliable filter of the endless crap out there, then I think they add tremendous value.
It's a limited market with room for only a few players, yes, but it's of more value than all the social-aggregation populist web 2.0 link sites put together.
In one month's time (September 17) -- we'll look at the nominated linkblogs, and award a prize. Together.
And then, as our wise master said in daily grind 1001:
After Satori, chop wood, carry water.
'Ryan Smith' on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:41:22 GMT, sez: I would have to say it really is a great tragedy that Mike has decided to give up The Daily Grind. It has become a ritual for me to read it every day after lunch and I just don't see any other site providing the same quality resources.
I hope your search ends up with me finding a good substitute to The Daily Grind and I applaud you for the effort.
Go Leon Go.
'mike' on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:22:33 GMT, sez: Thinking geographically, it seems to me that you your own self are in an excellent position to "get up early" (by our standards -- when you get up, it's still yesterday around here!) and do a little Web surfery for the good of mankind. I'm just sayin'.
:-)
'Helen' on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:51:13 GMT, sez: Thank goodness people are still better than machines at something. :)
'Stewart' on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:51:41 GMT, sez: I'm a little confused. I love "The Daily Grind", but that post that you referenced is from December 8, 2006. Was there something new that I missed?
'John Lopez' on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:17:48 GMT, sez: Mike has stated that his is making ends meet doing it the non-microsoft way. He managed the transition in about six months. Personally, I think he is on the right track; I have grown tired of Microsoft's growing disdain for independent consultants.
In the process of becoming enterprise friendly, they are pushing away the very developers who got them where they are, me included. If a product can be created equally well without Microsoft, I do it for my clients. Over time, I have found I need them less and less.
Try it, it is very liberating.
'Brian' on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:22:11 GMT, sez: I also feel the switch away from Microsoft is refreshing. Not that I think they are bad, just making things way more complicated than they need to be. Not everything is "Enterprise".
I have done pretty much what Mike has done, bought a Mac and moved over to learn Ruby On Rails. My experience has just been amazing and very refreshing. I feel like large weights have been lifted off my shoulders because I am no longer trying to keep up with the large amounts of very complex technologies coming out of MS.
'mike' on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:43:21 GMT, sez: I'm impressed. 5 comments in, and we've changed the thread from "who will replace Gunderloy?" to "Micro$oft Sux!" It's a kind of version of Godwin's Law. Or the modestly named Mike's Law of Linguistic Discussion: "As any discussion about language grows longer, the probability that someone will complain about how stupid people are ruining the language approaches one."
'John Lopez' on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:01:29 GMT, sez: Sorry that you feel I derailed the thread by respecting Mike Gunderloy's decision. Won't happen again, even if I do think he is smarter than I am.
'lb' on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:52:50 GMT, sez: here's another one:
K, now blog
http://oknowblog.blogspot.com/
'Simon' on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:51:41 GMT, sez: Well now, given that the Daily Grind links to you about once a week, perhaps you should just generate links to your own post. You could probably rustle something up in powershell or F# so you don't have to...
'Roundup category from Mike Pope' on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:59:02 GMT, sez: Hello Leon
One of the things I often check is the roundup category from Mike Pope (he links to you sometimes too)
Jeff
'Jeff' on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:33:39 GMT, sez: Did you ever figure this out?
'lb' on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:25:15 GMT, sez: i certainly did work this out Jeff!!
i've been on holidays and only just returned. But publishing the results and distributing awards is hot on my todo list.
i still need to put together some simple graphics for this award
lb
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