Good news for fans of PC Magazine columnist and published author John Dvorak: he has finally started blogging! (well, he started a month ago, I’m late to the party) Some folks still remember John’s cynical pieces on blogging being a fad and a waste of time and sound like they’d like to see him eat a little crow.

“Geez..show me ONE place where I ever said I HATED blogs! I’m critical of some blogs, so? AS for your siding with “whoever made this decision” — in your shoes I would too.”- John Dvorak

I had something to say about John Dvorak starting to blog:

“Glad to see Dvorak join the fray and added him to my RSS reader right away. He is one of those ranty tech writers that is actually worth reading. He wouldn’t be so worth reading if he was always being the nice guy optimist about technology. And he puts a picture of Stalin with the Microsoft shutting down P2P blog entry … yeah, that’s definitely *UNCENSORED* Doubtful in this lifetime you’d ever see that in PC Magazine.

So he was one of the doubters of the blogosphere that has changed his opinion. He isn’t the first and won’t be the last :)” - TDavid

After some trading of links to articles from Scoble and Shel Israel, John Dvorak responded again in his familiar ranty, scrooge-like writing style:

“Geez (2) — I never said it was worthless…but since my ridicule of certain blogging habits was so relentless (for a short time) that it stereotyped me. OK, fine. Who cares? I still think blogs written by cats are silly and worth a needle. I’ll be writing about my experiences as a blogger (on the blog, of course) and have to agree with the community that it’s fun.” - John Dvorak

I do notice a few things about John Dvorak’s blog:

1) He’s using Wordpress (open source blogging program) and hasn’t changed out some of the default Wordpress images yet. John, if you should happen to read this, you can change the small images located in /wp-images/wp-small.png so that you have your logo displayed during registration and login like this
2) He’s moderating comments. I commented and it didn’t appear right away. I’m guessing he’s either concerned about spammers or censoring the comment area. That’s ok in some cases, I guess, as I’ve removed comments (after they’ve been publically posted) where some nutjob was making conversations about pictures of my children. Fortunately that loon is gone … at least for awhile.
3) he’s definitely stepping up the intensity with his commentary in his blog and the word “uncensored” has already pictured some things (like the Stallin picture next to the Microsoft against P2P distribution piece) which would never make it past PC Mag’s editors.

I’ve just blogrolled Dvorak Uncensored and I also added back Scoblelizer. I had him listed the first couple months this blog was going but honestly he wore my eyes out with his open firehose blogging style and content. Lately I’ve noticed he isn’t doing 50 entries a day (yes, I’m exaggerating) like he once was. Scoble could of had a half dozen different specialized blogs with the content he was producing at one time anyway. Scoble has always been at least a semi-regular read and we live in the same neck of the woods. Maybe one of these days I’ll run into him — perhaps at the IBM/Intel conference on August 24, 2004 (hehe). Seriously, who else from this area is going?

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