Wow, that's harsh.Originally Posted by tequila
It's more a roundhouse kick against fanboi milbloggers than a simple news about Xe. And he kicks one of his fellow USNI bloggers (Galrahn) by linking at his text at ID as a hype example.
"And few in the blogosphere bothered to do their due diligence–most just joined in the hype and began braying away (it’s a distressing habit that extends to the latest topic-of-the-day–be it ASBMs, piracy, or whatever–beware those who constantly hype the popular programs and suck up to the powerful people)."
Luckily, I ignored the sage completely on my blog and tried to keep the other fashion waves small as well.
The hyping of programs by MilBlogs is quite a large phenomenon, of course. The list of "enthusiastic" MilBlogs is long even if we ignore the commercial examples. Some MilBlogs sound like extensions of some public relations departments.
The SW Blog is not without fault either; the tunnel vision on the SW topic is a weak spot in itself.
About Xe; well, that's a symptom of a badly failed personnel policy and of red tape. It's not the problem itself.
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