Is anyone else starting to get a little annoyed with every tech article about a promising company being called the “Next Google”? There isn’t a next Google, Google is Google, its a search engine and a lot other cool things. Google is not the next Microsoft. Can we stop with all the silly comparisons? Each company is a success based on it’s own defensible quirky merits. Google does not want to be Microsoft, Microsoft does not want to be Google. Each company is it’s own creation.

At some point in the last five years of tech journalism Google came to mean no business plan, unexpected advertising success, multi-billion dollar valuation. I don’t know if I would want my company to be called the next Google, it would imply the company has no plan other than burning through money until lightning strikes. Not a business model I would want to be involved with.

Please stop with the “Next Google” talk and please start talking about real companies with real revenue opportunities. And just because it worked for Google doesn’t mean it will work for social networking, media or road side fruit stands. I’m not interested in entrepreneurship that rushes the gold fields and hopes for a winning lottery ticket. That methodology never works out for the other 99%. Unless I’m the one selling the shovels and picks.

I’m a subscriber to Robert Scoble’s blog. Once or twice a month he’ll post something that interests me and I do find some value in his work. However, something about his presence at anything and everything related to technology is starting to wear thin on me. Has technology become some random conference in some random city every single weekend? Could I please just once go a week without hearing about a “panel” of experts at the Web 2.0 New Emerging Technologies of Change Conference for Change and World Peace with Demo Pit and Expert Talks Conference by the Technology Association of America in Fargo, ND?

I think it’s great that companies host these conferences and bring in cool people to talk about technology. I just could go without the celebrity because I’m a celebrity routine. It reminds me of Buffalo Bill and the Wild West show. If I plant my image on enough stuff, show up in enough cities and tell people fanciful stories of outrageous adventures – maybe people will start believing I’m actually the person I’m pretending to be. I feel a little of that with Scoble. He’s always planting his face on something or somewhere. Is he just a reporter or does he actually have something valuable to bring to the conversation? I don’t know yet and while I’m trying to figure it out I’m finding myself more and more annoyed with him blogging about some event he was at. It’s like the E channel for technology. Where’s the red carpet?

The amount of conferences and people running around at these conferences has me a little annoyed and I needed to vent about it here. However if a concert promoter out there wants to set up a Paul Graham lecture tour I’ll be the first one in line to buy tickets.