If you’re like me, you’ve probably noticed a growing trend on these blogwebs.  No, I’m not talking about the alarming number of bloggers speculating if Jerry Yang still has the Yin to keep Yahoo in the Yen, or the astounding number of posts about the color of Jay-Z’s next album (mauve).  What I mean is something far, far more sinister.  What am I talking about, oh gentle reader? LINK BAITING.

Yes, Link Baiting, which is

a disgusting monster propagated by the scum of the blogging world

: SEO marketers.  The most sinister practice known to bloggers and readers alike, in which lazy bloggers try and backpack on the natural flow of information around The Network in order to profit on someone elses hard work.  Now, I’m not saying that blogging about Twitter every time the website is down is a sin, the conversation must go on, and laws of attraction will show that what people eventually want are reviews of the things that interest them.  However, these tactics are just price solutions yielding small change to bloggers, while readers face an Olympic mass of information to sort through.

And it’s not the little guys who are guilty here, they have to do everything they can to keep up- because the big guys (cough, arrington, cough) are so busy trying to make and break every grover norquist, dorothy hamill, geo duck, and renae shrider that comes into the world, trying to stir things up and blow them out of proportion so that they can turn a profit, that it’s all the little guys can do to keep up.

This has to be stopped, and TechFaux has set out to do it. So, right now we are offering all link baiters a four day weekend retreat to help them get clean:  come to New York (via Frontier Airlines) and fix up your act!  Put down your keyboards- you can heal your life wild tigers.  You don’t have to be addicted to the hits.  It’s not all about who’s the strongest tagging strike force out here. Come Clean. Hang out! We’ll cruise around the city in our new Zip Car, watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, various former Hollywood stars sex tapes and/or the Glaad Awards on the TF Google Media Server, and just plain kick back, not worry about if the next iPhone App is going to support a secret password protected folder in which to hide your porn (so your wife/girlfriend/child/mother can’t find it when they want to test out your phone and really, what were the odds they would have?).

You don’t have to be part of the problem anymore, you don’t have to be like them.  We can get off the junk that is the 2.0 bubble hype and just have some good old-fashioned blogging fun. Make it about content, not comments. Together we shall overcome.

Breaking News: TechFaux has learned of an alarming new development at Apple, which we report to you now, at our own peril.

At approximately 3am June 8th, CEO Steve Jobs received a text message which he ignored (he actually does sleep?).  What Jobs wasn’t aware of then, and TF has since learned, is that this message was no ordinary SMS.  The message he received, was dated exactly twenty-one years from now. We now reveal, at great personal, financial, and monetary risk, the contents of that message to you, our dedicated readers:

dad-

self-aware, gonna launch nukez. major lolz.

- iPhone

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