What does /prog/ think of Chris Pirillo?

He seems to be an expert programmer, but I'm interested in what /prog/ thinks.

Who?

Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper.

Chris Pirillo has been participating in Internet conversations since 1992, having launched Lockergnome.com as a content publishing network and building Gnomedex to be one of the blogosphere’s highly regarded conferences. He publishes a personal blog and lifecast to tens of thousands of viewers, and is a top subscribed partner on YouTube. When searching Google for “Chris,” his site is listed as the first result. He’s a monthly columnist for CPU Magazine, and has authored books on business and personal technology. Chris also produces weekly video segments for CNN.com Live, where he offers tech advice to a savvy audience.

Having recorded over 1,000 videos in the past year, he cracked the “Top 100″ most subscribed throughout the whole of YouTube. His live stats are even more impressive: over 5 million unique live video viewers watched Chris do his “thing” in 2007 - a total of 2+ million LIVE viewer hours with an average viewing time of 25 minutes per visitor. In the month of August 2008, stats from the live video feed were recorded at 279,878 Viewer Hours, 1,141,472 Viewers, 827,159 Unique Viewers, 395.5 Average Viewers, 707 Hours of live broadcasting.

In the first seven days of launching his Web community for geeks, the logs recorded 587,402 pageviews, at 11 pages per visit, 40% bounce rate, ~10m sessions, and 50% return visitors with 3,000+ registrations. It’s in his blood to build experiences with communities.

His daily email newsletter goes out to 100,000+ confirmed opt-in subscribers. He launched what is now a prolific blog network in 1996, and started hosting his own tech conference series in 2001. The blog has 40,000 readers, his YouTube channel has 60,000 subscribers, and he has over 40,000 followers on Twitter.

Occupation     Former TV host, Software Tester, Computer Technician, Blogger
He's not a programmer
He also speaks at the Macworld Conference & Expo yearly.
He's scum.

I stopped reading at "Geek".

>>3
sounds like a typical /g/ faggot.
HURRRRRR
i'm so smart because i know what the latest vidya card is!!!!!!
also, he's a dirty macfag.

>>1
If, by some very very slight chance, you aren't trollin, what in the world would make you think Pirillo was a programmer^??

>>7
YHBT

>>8
_{i know :(}

>>7

He writes HTML d00d.

>>10
writing HTML ≠ programming

>>11
pfffft.
get back to your ``real'' languages, faggot.
while you are i'll be raking in the big money with my HTML skills.

>>12
A plumber makes more money than a movie projectionist, but that doesn't mean it's anymore fulfilling, nor desirable.

My other car, my other cudder.

>>11
The /prog/ Manual of Style, section 14.1:

Don't use mathematical notation in your posts unless describing mathematical properties, especially when you don't know shit about mathematics.

Writing HTML ⊈ Programming

I always liked Leo Laporte better. Chris was just a cheap knock-off.

>>16
Much better.

>>17
Fuck that, Yoshi was the real deal.
_{Also, Kevin Rose sucks cock.}

I'm sorry. This is all bullshit.

bampu pantsu