The press was not impressed with the kind of Metaverse Meta showed at its Connect developer conference last week, so the skewering of Meta continued unabated this week, almost becoming news itself. No wonder Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he feels like he's being punched in the stomach when he opens his phone in the morning. They've brought this on themselves but not on purpose. The company leads the social media industry in unforced errors, and its leaders live in a billionaire bubble, making it especially hard to resist punching the bobo doll. On the other hand, Zuckerberg is willing a new medium into existence, one which will benefit us all. He's taking an historic business risk I don't think anyone one else would take. Not like this. So today I'm relegating our tribal beatings of Meta to a new section, "This Week in Schadenfreude ," which will appear at the bottom of this column. Flame on, fellow pundits. There is place for you here.