Reading Between the Lines
Recently Dave Winer linked to an article on iPodObserver with the following quote:
58% of current iPod owners who are planning to buy a new digital media device in the next 12 months are ‘likely’ to choose Microsoft’s Zune.
After the release of the Zune marketwatch reported that the iPod claimed 5 of the top 10 and 10 of the top 25 on Amazon’s most purchased electronic items list. The Zune, in fact, lagged behind the iPod USB Power Adapter.
By comparison, Microsoft’s new Zune media player, despite heavy marketing, came in only at No. 75 on Amazon’s list of 100 best-selling electronics, trailing items such as Apple’s $29.99 iPod USB power adapter, at No. 65.
With community sites such as metafilter, digg, and sportsfilter link blogs aren’t as useful as they once were. Still, the best ones can still be trusted to put personal feelings aside and separate the nonsense from the viable, the good from the bad, the worthwhile from the drivel (most blogs that linked to the survey saw the faulty wording and dismissed it).
The worst link blogs throw up anything that supports their viewpoints and discard the rest.
