Now some might say I go a little overboard when I criticize the Web Host Industry Review, but that is because I would like to see them get better. Anything I have said has not been really meant to be taken in a mean spirited way. I just think from time to time they could do better – and it is nice to see that they have come through with that via the new WHIR Blogs.

So I might be the first to poke them with a sharp stick – but I will also offer them a pat on the back when I see something that I like. Keep up the good work Liam!

Let me comment on something Liam Eagle said though:

Mitch seems to think he’s unraveling some sort of conspiracy. But this is hardly a revelation. It ought to be patently obvious to anyone reading the WHIR blogs that we’re posting comments on each other’s entries. We’re certainly not doing it in secret.

Nobody said it was a secret.

The reason I thought it was funny is that the Web Host Industry Review is one of the biggest dogs in the fight. They are the “leaders of the pack” in some people’s eyes. When you look at other Web hosting leaders blog (take Bob Parsons for example) he gets comments all over the place. Why isn’t the WHIR Blog team getting the same reaction? That is what I thought was “odd” and then “funny”.

Just to make it clear yet again, just because I might question or highlight what the WHIR is doing doesn’t mean there is a “negative meaning” behind it. Heck, I even wrote for the WHIR once upon a time (did one article too my whole month there ).

One thing that the WHIR does very well is Web hosting news. I am in no way, shape or form in competition with the WHIR team. They have a bigger budget, a bigger team, and more leverage in the business than a little old Web hosting podcaster like me has. I am only trying to bring attention to what I see.

Now one more comment on what Liam had to say in his own comment:

Hey Mitch. I was going to reply here, but I thought maybe nobody would see it, so I put something up on my blog.

Yes Liam, maybe nobody would have seen it here, but then again – where did WHIR TV go anyways?

Now this might not be the case exactly, but it sure does look funny. Need an example?