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This is a lesson that I have learned more than once. A lesson that I never seem to remember. I'm going to document it here with some hope of trying to remember it. Here it goes: People that I respect read various publications, I am not required to respect those publications.

For example, I subscribed to ReadWriteWeb's RSS feed after seeing it referenced by a few people I respect. Let's check out selections from the latest 400 word, five paragraph masterpiece.

• "hosting hasn't changed much, but it has become a commodity service"
• "web hosts haven’t really done much in ten years"
• "web hosts ... squandered the decade offering the same old thing with little to no innovation."
• "hosts haven't changed much"
• "hosts have squandered an opportunity to innovate"

Just in case you don't want to do the math. In five paragraphs, they actually said the exact same thing five times. I am not saying they spent five paragraphs supporting their argument. The argument wasn't even theirs. They spent five paragraphs actually saying the same thing over and over and it was somehow less interesting than this post.

Needless to say, I'm unsubscribing.