Barry Diller Disses Blogs, eBay's SHOP Deal and Comparison Shopping (IACI, EXPE, EBAY)

Here's Citigroup Internet Analyst Mark Mahaney's write-up of Barry Diller's keynote address at Shop.org 2005. The comment about blogs is particularly suitable to publish on this site. (Barry Diller is CEO of IAC, ticker: IACI.)

Some takeaways from Barry Diller’s Keynote

Mr. Diller is Chairman and CEO of InterActiveCorp and Chairman of Expedia. His keynote was an engaging and often entertaining exchange with Forrester’s Carrie Johnson. Although blogging was one of the conference’s hot topics, Mr. Diller opined that most blogs are drivel (“Who wants to hear it?