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Love some insight into whether or not I’m overreacting to this…

First, I typically really enjoy HBR. They usually have great articles and I learn something every time I pick up their publication or hit the website.

But this article by Tom Davenport is sloppy and almost irresponsible. You can read the article and see for yourself, but basically he’s making the point that Twitter isn’t a useful medium because he personally doesn’t think the conversations are “important”.

It’s an absurd point, as if the only reason to have a way to communicate with people is so you can talk about things that Tom Davenport thinks are important.

What also makes me mad is that I posted a comment basically stating the above, but he never approved it. Figures.

So, am I overreacting?  HBR has a lot of readers, most of which likely are NOT on Twitter, so when they read something like this they’re likely to write off the medium because HBR says its not important.  That bugs me.

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