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I don't see any problem with seo itself. The problem I think is with big SEO companies who are sucking their customer's hard earned money... This post if great anyway..

Oh come on really... this is just another person trying to grab their 15 minutes of fame.

This sounds like a way to get some buzz started in his direction, he obviously has no idea what he is talking, he needs insert foot in mouth.

Whatever the guise I think there will always be a place for SEO

In business a person should never dismiss anything, the idea is to use ever tool available for your advantage.

OK, here is the bottom line to everything.  People posting here are not SEO experts (although uglydoll makes a good, humerous point).  Here is the truth:

 1.  Companies who guarantee top 10 listings for ANY keyword(s) are wrong to do so.  It's really simple.  If 11 companies guaranteed a top 10 placement for the SAME keyword, then this is impossible, since there are only 10 slots on, say, Google's SERPs (search engine result pages). 

2.  Mr. Fallon makes an uneducated argument saying how he posted an article entitled, "SEO Mind Crime", and it now comes up on the first page of Google when that keyword string is typed in.  Here is why:

"SEO Mind Crime" is NOT a competitive keyword phrase at all.  If I made an article called,

"THE BIG ANGRY MELLON MONKEY OF 2008", it would probably come up eventually on the first page in the search engines when someone types it in because it's NOT a competitive keyword phrase either.

So if the author wants to try and make his bet, have him try to do an article for, "Dell Computers" or "Personal Finance" and see what happens.

Not in a BILLION years would the author take this bet, nor succeed if he foolishly tried.

The reason?  HIGHLY COMPETITIVE keyword phrases.  Mr. Fallon needs to be introduced to  keyword database next time  before he makes a post like this. 

Yes, there are some  "criminal " SEO companies out  there, but it's important to know your facts first.

What is your definition of SEO? (It sounds like you may be stuck in the 90's.) What SEO firms could stay in business today without incorporating RSS, social networking, weblogs, popularity indexes and helping clients write content for the benefit of site visitors. While your old definition of SEO and its use of shortcuts and tricks may be long gone, SEO consultants who direct and educate their clients in: viral marketing, attracting quality links, writing useful content, (and yes, even those age-old principles of structuring pages in ways that are still attractive to search engines) has never been more valued by (or profitable for) smart clients.

Seems a simple case of link bait crime. Anyhow, you can by the term for 1/6 on Google Adwords.