David Appell Responds

I recently wrote a piece (see David Appell Is Andrew Keen Jr) countering some of the observations made by David Appell in a post about the blogosphere at his Quarksoup blog. Basically, he was making Andrew Keenish noises about the bilge being churned out by amateurs. I made the assertion that he probably doesn’t participate in the web like a denizen of the edge does, to which he has replied:

[from David Appell’s comment at David Appell Is Andrew Keen Jr]
Actually I do use RSS readers and instant messaging. (I even have a cell phone.) I haven’t found Facebook to be very useful though, nor Twitter. (Twitter is pretty much the exact opposite of how I want to spend my day.)

[emphasis mine]