Or maybe you just like looking at pictures.

They say you are what you eat. I wonder if you are what you read. I hope not – for your sake.

Nicholas: there’s something amusingly ironic about insulting the readership of this blog while at the same time posting a comment that promotes your services to its readers.

I know the economy is tough and all and you’re clearly not the brightest of the bunch, but please have some dignity.

@nicholaspatten.

Keep doing what you do best Alana. I get hate mail all the time and I find it awesome, because it’s over political nonsense that I try never to post on twitter and the moment I post one single Obama commercial I edited, in comes some very interesting emails.

This article makes quite the fool of you.

For someone who doesn’t even have her journalism degree yet and who clearly lacks the skills of a professional journalist, there’s a bit of irony there. I’ll let you find it.

By the way, I think you need to get a new keyboard. Appears that your keys are sticking together.

I’m sure Mashable as a business is doing just fine. But I will be honest: I’ve yet to come across many blogs paying on a pay-per-post basis that pay their writers enough to make a “career” of it.

Let me put it this way: if you doubled the amount you paid me for my guest posts and I wrote 5 posts per week, I wouldn’t survive.

Is that a knock on you? No. From what I’ve seen, your rates for posts are competitive. Does that mean that the economics are favorable for someone looking to blog full-time? No.

That was my point and admittedly, I could have articulated it better.

Please recognize that when I discuss the economics of blogging, my perspective is that of a person who makes money blogging but who pays his bills with money generated elsewhere.

I’m not a full-time blogger and I started blogging for fun and amusement. I’ve been fortunate to turn something I enjoy doing into something that generates some cash and through this experience, question a lot of the hype around “blogging as a career.”

As for my “exhuberence to insult and nitpick,” I try to be fair but when criticism is deserved, it’s deserved.

Alana Taylor’s article was an exhibition in narcissism and naivety. I called it as such.

As you’ve probably figured out by now, I value thoughtfulness, insight, analysis and accuracy.

I don’t like it when individuals don’t give any thought to what they’re writing about. I don’t like it when individuals don’t have anything interesting to say. I don’t like it when individuals apply no critical thinking to the subjects on which they write. And I especially don’t like it when individuals marginalize accuracy.

I would ask you: is there anything wrong with that? Are thoughtfulness, insight, analysis and accuracy not desirable in any medium?

Finally, I can assure you that I’m as hard on myself as I am on others.

Criticism is a two-way street. I just might put my foot in my mouth every once in a while and I’m perfectly willing to admit it when I think I have. I’m also perfectly willing to defend my arguments when I think they’re valid.

In this case, my criticism of Taylor may seem “harsh” but when you objectively evaluate the things she wrote and the way in which she wrote them, I think you’d have a hard time arguing that criticism was not well-deserved.

these newbies are really trying to kill the forward internet movement.

On an unrelated note, how’s your university doing these days?

Alex: I’ve written about the inane emphasis on content distribution over content production in the past, as well as Gen Y’ers.

Alana Taylor provided the opportunity to discuss the stupidity of both.

As for your other comment, she’s not my type.

Show a little restraint, particularly in areas where you aren’t that informed. This article could have used a once over or even a twice-over. Your exhuberence to insult and nitpick sometimes diminishes your overall message.