DrTdaxp

• Name: Mis-Leader

  Description: “This blogger has a hidden agenda, but he just makes it sound like he is a totally objective commentator.”

  Qualities:

  • Protects his advertisers
  • Has conflict of interest
  • Appears authoritative

  Does it fit tdaxp?: I’d like to think this blog appears to be respectable, but I have no advertisers and have only received a couple of books and a couple interesting rl conversations out of it.

• Name: Criminal

  Description: “Career criminals, no less”

  Qualities:

  • $0.5M/year pay-offs
  • Guard dogs surround compound
  • Highly effective operational plan

  Does it fit tdaxp?: I eat Ramen way too often to earn six figures, or to have a compound,

• Name: Bankrupt

  Description: “This is usually not a smart guy”

  Qualities:

  • No money
  • No assets
  • No prospects for work

  Does it fit tdaxp?: I have to say, the very qualities which make me not a “criminal” appear to make me “bankrupt.” (I hope I am a smart guy, however.)

• Name: Sadist

  Description: “most likely to be the one that starts recommending direct physical violence against the exeutives of a company”

  Qualities:

  • Escalates attacks rapidly
  • Uses his real name
  • Enjoys inflicting pain

  Does it fit tdaxp?: Well, I am in my fifth year of graduate school, but that would make me a masochist, not a sadist. I blog pseudo-anonymously and haven’t recommended direct physical violence yet, however, so this doesn’t quite conform

• Name: Rookie

  Description: “just kids having fun as the hormones kick in”

  Qualities:

  • Mimic adult conversation
  • Spell “ROI” as “RIO”
  • Can be utterly immature

  Does it fit tdaxp?: I like to use big words and misspell short ones, but I’m rarely charged with immaturity. No only 2 for 3 (hopefully!)

• Name: Nerd

  Description: “scared to talk with a girl”

  Qualities:

  • no principles involved
  • posts are intelligent and have face validity
  • cowers once identified

  Does it fit tdaxp?: Hmmm… certainly this blog looks smart, but tends to a coherent aesthetic-politico-religious framework (the old tagline of tdaxp was “Beauty, Victory, God”). I guess the test will be if tdaxp folds up shop once someone calls me a nerd. (I’ve kept going through death threats, but those are adreneline-boosting, I guess.)

• Name: Alien

  Description: “from overseas”

  Qualities:

  • Non US- resident
  • Works with criminals
  • Sometimes nabbed by the FBI in Turkey

  Does it fit tdaxp?: I’m an American, don’t know anyone with guard dogs surrounding his compound, have no plans of visiting Turkey, and no plans of evading the FBI there.

• Name: Druggie

  Description: “during the day this blogger is a normal guy”

  Qualities:

  • Suffers from amnesia
  • Substance abuser
  • “Hooks up” on the net

  Does it fit tdaxp?: I don’t rember forgetting (but then how would I??), drink modesty (but isn’t that how it starts??) and already hooked up with my knife (but what I convert to a polygamic faith??)

• Name: Pickpocket

  Description: “enjoys attacking defenseless people”

  Qualities:

  • Steals copyrighted material
  • Extracts revenues from ads
  • Uses meta tags

  Does it fit tdaxp?: “Pickpocket” appears to be a combination of “Criminal” and Sadist,” making both necessary conditions for pickpockethood.

• Name:Wacko

  Description: “Most sophisticated business people immediately view the post as a ‘nut case’”

  Qualities:

  • Begins with fair criticism
  • Invests time into he criticism
  • Multiple web properties

  Does it fit tdaxp?: Well.. maybe

  I have multiple web properties. Besides tdaxp, my South Dakota focused news aggregator is covering the story, and using blospirit’s point-and-click interface I began Dozier Internet Lawsuits to try to keep tabs on the company. (I only have two posts, because I would like any record to be even-handed, and I’ve been able to identify only one Dozier victory and many defeats.) Additionally, I use del.icio.us social bookmarks, so there’s that, too.

  I have spent time on this. Part of the reason is that I dislike censorship, and another (less noble) is that I have empty time I want to fill. (Now, for example, I am riding with my wife on I-80 through scenic if empty western Illinois.)

  My criticism has been fair. Again, check out my description of the DirectBuy case, and the earlier Franchise Time article on Cuppy’s Coffee. While I have more pointed possibilities as well, such as questioning the motive Dozier attorney Donald Morris or Dozier’s history of disrespecting online privacy, I immediately received positive feedback on both topics.

I think John Dozier called me a Wacko.

Can anyone at Dozier confirm that?