Posted Jul 10 2006 by Peter Da Vanzo in Blogging Tips with 2 Comments
Always thought it sucked, myself. Same goes for “guru“. Quasi 60’s, hippy-yet-totalitarian, self-aggrandizing terms.
Just saying….  🙂
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I totally agree. They’re both stupid.
“Guru” is pretentious, and sounds like a title a poseur would adopt. “Thought-leader” conjures up images of Lenin, Castro and Saddam.
A true expert in the field doesn’t need titles like those. 90% of Google’s hits for “Jakob Nielsen” do NOT contain those terms, for example.
Should we do the same search for you, Peter?
Heh heh. A search on grumpy old man will probably do the trick 🙂
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I totally agree. They’re both stupid.
“Guru” is pretentious, and sounds like a title a poseur would adopt. “Thought-leader” conjures up images of Lenin, Castro and Saddam.
A true expert in the field doesn’t need titles like those. 90% of Google’s hits for “Jakob Nielsen” do NOT contain those terms, for example.
Should we do the same search for you, Peter?
Heh heh. A search on grumpy old man will probably do the trick 🙂