I sit here starring at my blinking cursor wondering why the Internet sucks. I’m just bored with it. I guess it doesn’t help that I spend more time on the web than most normal people but it should still entertain me. A vast endless pot of information and I can’t find something that interests me, I just don’t get it.

I think a lot of it has to do with industry blogs and news. By “Industry blog” and news, I am referring to all the “A-List” SEO and technology news bloggers out there. Techcrunch, Mashable, SEJ, SEL, etc etc. They all put out the same news with roughly the same opinion (I give Techcrunch a pass here b/c everyone wants to be them and agree with them). It seems like they are all trying to make everyone happy, no one wants to ruffle any feathers or give a real opinion. Its really annoying. I don’t think you need to be a dick about things but at least have your own opinion.

Here is an example. Yesterday it was announced that Yahoo bought MyBlogLog and if you had looked a Techmeme you would have thought the web was a big game of Monopoly and Yahoo had just bought Park Place to go with Boardwalk. But like Boardwalk and Park Place, MyBlogLog is completely overrated but no one wanted to say it. Do we really need a social network for our blog stats? Do we really need 1,000 of the same industry blogs telling us the same opinion about how great of an acquisition it was? Maybe its my fault for reading them, but I would think that someone would have a different opinion.

I guess it goes along with what Belsky and I were talking about today, how I’m not a fan of people who won’t tell you their real opinion. It happens a lot in the office setting where inside the office the person acts all nice and PC then when you go to happy hour they unleash their true feelings after having bottled them up all day. Maybe that’s the way the office scene works. Maybe I’ve been cooped up in this house so long I don’t know what society is like.

Speaking of people I’m not a fan of, Jeremy Schoemaker or Shoemoney as he is called on the web, was recently added to my list. Last weekend he randomly went through MyBlogLog and added all these people as social network contacts, Thomas and I being two of them. Now seeing as I have no idea who the guy is outside of his blog and I’m sure he’s never read this or Thomas’ site, why would he add us as contacts? Strange huh? Well, Thomas put together a post and I posted it on the best marketing blog on the web. It wasn’t anything derogatory but it was just asking what Mr. Shoemoney was up to. Being that he is also known for his exploits on the web it sounded kind of fishy. After posting it I went to his site and dug around a little bit and found out he was in some contest with Andy Beal regarding whose blog was hotter or something to that nature, and they were using MyBlogLog as a gauge.

After reading this, I removed the post that had been up for no longer then about 3 minutes, but apparently that was long enough for one of Shoemoney’s Fellow A-list bloggers, Patrick Gavin, to email him the post. Fine with me like I said it wasn’t anything derogatory, just merely asking some questions. Well, apparently Mr. Shoe$ didn’t like it, because later that evening he submitted a contact form to Mshift saying

I dont know why you want to make enemies with me but congrats.

I rather than responding to the question he decided we were A-holes. I emailed him and said, I had took the post down and that we were just curious as to what he was up to. A few emails later he tells me that there will be a post about why and also:

“you might as well post the story like 20 people have emailed me saying you were talking shit about me.”

I asked him what part of it did he consider “talking shit about him” but he never responded so I guess we will never know. Unless he has a technorati or Google blog search feed for his name and feels like responding. I just don’t get why he got all bent out of shape because someone questioned his tactics. My guess is he knew MyBlogLog was going to get acquired and wanted to get his site in front of all the new onlookers who happened to look at the “hottest community” section. Hell, maybe he just wanted to beat Beal really badly, I dunno. I really Don’t care, just thought I would share.

Back to my initial point, I just don’t like how all the relevant news in this industry seems to be controlled by these “A-Listers” who just happened to be blogging at the right time when the industry boom started happening. They need to get back to their roots. They forgot they were once a random posting, jabroni sitting on their couch, kinda like me.

I want to do something about it, but outside of staging my own little e-protest and unsubscribing from all their feeds and subscribing to some little guy feeds, I’m not sure what to do or if anyone else cares. Maybe its just me.