Comments on: The Internet Explorer IQ Hoax and the State of Tech Blogging http://siliconfilter.com/the-internet-explorer-iq-hoax-and-the-state-of-tech-blogging/ Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:00:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: CapeJag http://siliconfilter.com/the-internet-explorer-iq-hoax-and-the-state-of-tech-blogging/#comment-964 CapeJag Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:18:52 +0000 http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6976#comment-964 @sombrestyles, Do we know how many corporations are still running with antiquated tools? According to w3schools.com almost 29% of the IE users are STILL on versions older than IE8. Does that make them ALL morons?

@tuseroni, what is the pleasure in misleading – no lying to – others? Like the pleaseure some get in creating viruses? I say throw them all in jail!

]]> By: tuseroni http://siliconfilter.com/the-internet-explorer-iq-hoax-and-the-state-of-tech-blogging/#comment-961 tuseroni Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:59:13 +0000 http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6976#comment-961 the reason for this can be summed in one word: schadenfreude.

]]> By: sombrestyles http://siliconfilter.com/the-internet-explorer-iq-hoax-and-the-state-of-tech-blogging/#comment-954 sombrestyles Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:26:03 +0000 http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6976#comment-954 pfft, it doesn’t even take a study to know that anyone using ie6 is a complete moron, it’s common sense as long as your smart enough to think it through.

]]> By: CapeJag http://siliconfilter.com/the-internet-explorer-iq-hoax-and-the-state-of-tech-blogging/#comment-953 CapeJag Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:02:49 +0000 http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6976#comment-953 ‘get as many pageviews as possible’ – the one point you are missing here is greed (or maybe just feed the family), which you are also involved in – ‘Advertise on this Site’ – come on. Of course, the more hits – the more income.

Most of us out here are really too busy trying to make an honest living, you know ‘a days work for a days pay’, to do our own research into so called news articles. If they are supposed to be funny – put them on the funny page – not commentary. And while your’re at it stop the Microsoft bashing – my research says 95% of us geeks would be out of a job, or slinging hamburgers, if it wasn’t for Microsoft’s success!

In addition to Frederic’s issue about trying to stick to the truth – I’m also tired of Tech Blogs publishing the ‘SOLUTION’ to some cryptic web problem only to find out the SOLUTION won’t work – or is terribly outdated. It’s like reading ’20,000 Leagues…’ as the users guide to a ‘Trident II’ submarine. How about a website that checks the accuracy and currency of code examples, a lot of the work could be automated, just match the syntax and run it thru current translators to see what comes out for errors…

]]> By: MJ2011 http://siliconfilter.com/the-internet-explorer-iq-hoax-and-the-state-of-tech-blogging/#comment-952 MJ2011 Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:14:15 +0000 http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6976#comment-952 Like most tabloid newspapers, you shouldn’t believe everything you read. I’m sure a similar amount of hysteria could be created if a dog food company posted some statistics on the internet claiming their rivals product contained moon dust, and this was responsible for 80% of dogs floating off into space! People believe anything if it’s backed up by colourful pie graphs and charts! LOL

]]> By: Warren Jason Street http://siliconfilter.com/the-internet-explorer-iq-hoax-and-the-state-of-tech-blogging/#comment-932 Warren Jason Street Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:53:20 +0000 http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6976#comment-932 I wish I had picked up on the idea of this as a hoax. I thought that the best way to attack this kind of wrongheaded conclusion was to look at economics as a factor as to why people weren’t able to upgrade. I still think I was sort of on the right track.

http://www.warrenjasonstreet.com/2011/08/this-is-why-i-question-these-sorts-of.html

]]> By: remotesynth http://siliconfilter.com/the-internet-explorer-iq-hoax-and-the-state-of-tech-blogging/#comment-930 remotesynth Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:59:58 +0000 http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6976#comment-930 The kinds of anti or even pro corporate biases like the one you mention impacting Microsoft in this case are a major factor in tech blogging lately. Very little fact-checking is done on stories by “media” when the story reflects their inherent bias.

]]> By: DustinHarper http://siliconfilter.com/the-internet-explorer-iq-hoax-and-the-state-of-tech-blogging/#comment-928 DustinHarper Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:11:53 +0000 http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6976#comment-928 @FredericL There is a lot of pressure to get the news published ASAP, and accurately. I’ve posted rumors or hoaxes in the past and had to post an update or a correction. Some of it sounds very true and plausible. Depending on your viewpoint, it can sound even better. With minutes between a study being published and blog writers wanting the “scoop”, it can mean some hoaxes are released as real news. There is pretty much nothing that can be done to correct that with the seconds-count schedule we face. Intuition and “gut feelings” can help. Being the last to release the news and fact checking every news post can work, it just won’t be successful. You’ll miss the hoaxes, but also the real news.

]]> By: FredericL http://siliconfilter.com/the-internet-explorer-iq-hoax-and-the-state-of-tech-blogging/#comment-927 FredericL Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:06:48 +0000 http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6976#comment-927 @zee fair point. I consciously didn’t point to any specific blogs or writers here (and as you knnow, I’m a big fan of what you guys are doing over at The Next Web). I’m more interested in what it means in the context of the whole blog ecosystem than anything else and I do think that it shows some of the pressures we all face (myself included).

]]> By: zee http://siliconfilter.com/the-internet-explorer-iq-hoax-and-the-state-of-tech-blogging/#comment-926 zee Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:55:08 +0000 http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6976#comment-926 @FredericL@marshallk Honestly guys, I think people have taken this way too seriously. We posted it to our Shareables channel where we post a lot of random and amusings stuff. We expected people to take it with a pinch of salt…so I’d add “because it’s funny” to the list of reasons you’ve mentioned there.

]]> By: FredericL http://siliconfilter.com/the-internet-explorer-iq-hoax-and-the-state-of-tech-blogging/#comment-925 FredericL Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:51:10 +0000 http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6976#comment-925 @marshallk Very true. I guess I could have been much harder but I think the story makes the point as is. I’m very glad you guys didn’t run with it :)

]]> By: DustinHarper http://siliconfilter.com/the-internet-explorer-iq-hoax-and-the-state-of-tech-blogging/#comment-924 DustinHarper Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:44:36 +0000 http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6976#comment-924 When you are a pro-Microsoft writer, you tend to make sure the anti-Microsoft reports are accurate. :) It sounded fishy from the start.

]]> By: marshallk http://siliconfilter.com/the-internet-explorer-iq-hoax-and-the-state-of-tech-blogging/#comment-923 marshallk Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:42:46 +0000 http://siliconfilter.com/?p=6976#comment-923 Interesting post, Frederic! I think you probably could have been even harsher than you were :) I sure am glad RWW didn’t buckle to this pressure and post on that story!

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