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Re: Former Eagle Zach Ertz gets shout out from Jon Rahm after winning The Masters

mnips22 — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 17:23:29 -0000

See who's in the background of that top photo? Brian Roberts is an Augusta member?

Re: The Real Deal

mnips22 — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:32:50 -0000

Alex, you have long been one of the many people here who had identified a need for a bus. Someone (not you) got some public funding for this bus and then asked you to help drive it, and you declined.

As you sit on the curb and watch it drive away, you are criticizing the people who got the funding, and are criticizing that it doesn't look like the bus you had in mind. The fact that you even criticize the driver - someone who works her ass off for the same cause you do - is most revealing.

Alex, if you care so much about Philly, the place to offer your ideas would have been on stage as you supported this national-caliber event, not on your blog as you try to shoot it down. Most of the people involved in this - like me - are donating their time and ideas. And every one of the active, local organizations mentioned on this page by others was invited to participate in this event.

What is the real reason why you aren't helping? Seems to me that this is mostly about local politics; not about ideas - about the ownership of them. That's too bad. That's the sort of provincial thinking that will prevent things from changing so much here any time soon. I’ve worked in the national digital market for well more than a decade now, and watched it expand and contract three times. I’ve never heard anything like this in any community I've worked in (DC, SF, Chicago, NY) until now. Bummer for Philly.

Re: Why I decided not to speak at Innovation Philadelphia’s Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit

mnips22 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:40:04 -0000

Alex, if you're doing things to help, and a large organization that is also dedicated to doing things to help has asked you to share what you're doing with a new audience - one potentially numerbing in the hundreds - what you're saying here is nonsense. They offered you a platform to share your ideas - at no cost to you. And you chose to decline, which is clearly your right. The posts against them and this event reek of something else though.

If you were offered an editorial board with the Wall Street Journal, would you decline it because that organization is "too top down" for you? Doesn't that sound silly?

I, like Peter, am helping Kelly with this event. I'm doing so because it's a good event that is dedicated to a cause I favor - and because I can. No high horse here - just a focus on results.

The same results we all favor. Right, Alex?

Re: Why I decided not to speak at Innovation Philadelphia’s Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit

mnips22 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:41:24 -0000

Alex,

Are you SURE that what you've stated above is the real reason you're not participating? Or, is it true that you were initially enthralled with the prospect of participating, told them how excited you were, only to then demand to be paid for appearing and learn you weren't going to be?

Self-serving posts like yours above reflect part of the problem within Philly. Such provinciality helps nobody - including you. Innovation Philly is trying to be part of the solution. This conference will give people ideas to solve problems and make progress in our community. If you're really committed to helping the community, why did you demand payment and then write this nonsense? After all, who does this serve?

Seriously - Why be a hater?