Dvorak admits he's a troll
June 10th 2006
Dvorak admits he's a troll
And, what's more, somebody captured him on tape saying it...
John Dvorak has publicly admitted that he baits mac users in order in to drive up his ratings. Technologist and blogger extraordinaire Dave Winer has the goods on the columnist:
I was talking with Dvorak at the Vloggercon party this evening, and he started telling a story about how he deliberately pisses Mac users off to get flow for his stories, and I said, hold a minute, I want to record this, and shit if he didn't stop and repeat it for me and my video camera (torrent). I guess now I'm an official video blogger.
This is an allegation that's been repeated enough times to have currency, but to actually see and hear him admit to it offers a certain satisfaction.
With this now aired, one wonders whether he'll try one more time.
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