Simon is wondering why I don't like his blog. Mind you, I'm faithfully subscribed, as I already was to his little email announcement list quite some time ago, and I remember posting him a note in favour of his musical preferences (it used to be Vertical Horizon at that time). Being the professional traveler that he is, I was surprised to receive a personal answer from him shortly after that. So I figured Simon to be a cool guy, even though he's a perpetual keynote puppy. Which is partly my fault since I also invited him over to Belgium early 2000 for such a thing.
I still carry a (credited) slide from him in my presentation collection, which I affectionally call "Phipp's Onion" - so it really took me some time to become slightly annoyed with his personal outlet. It began shortly after his eagerness to be on the self-invented A-list, and became gradualy worse when he was worried about Java.net not being sufficiently linked by that same A-list. All-in-all, Simon's outings are assumably more directed and tuned towards an audience of CTOs and CIOs, so I get bored quite fast when he comes with the once-in-a-while "Am I sure I haven't missed anything cool happening"-blogs, heavily cross-linked since he was explained this is considered to be bon ton in Bloggerati Land. But I wouldn't mind all this if there was some genuine content and thoughts to be discovered. Even though Sean's blog carries the laughable pompous title of CTO, Propylon, Sean regularly blogs some cool, techy URIs. Simon too often recycles stuff I read already in some other places. Except for the SocioPolitical stuff he is blogging about, I think the GoogleAds alongside his blog explain the problem: too much blogging about blogging. Too little about Simon, the clueful Sun Keynote Puppy. I want to read about the human being, entangled in a company which walks the extremely thin line between selling pizza boxes, bad-mouthing M$ and FUDing Open Source, but not offering a real alternative themselves. And I know Simon can do better than this.