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Joe Pruitt
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1 year ago
in Out on the UGC limb (Scripting News) on Scripting News
Not that I'm picking a side on the whole Cala-Winer gate thing, but I do find it interesting that you equate "reviewing his product unfavorably" as yelling out "PRODUCT SPAM, PRODUCT SPAM" in the middle of his presentation at Gnomedex. I was there and I saw this more as "heckling" than "reviewing".
I'm aware you were vocal about your opinions on Mahalo and it's business model, but I don't remember that in the hall at Gnomedex. Jason obviously had an agenda with his presentation and that was to promote his new site. Heckling, in my opinion, is not cool. If you had a problem with the content, you should have taken it up with Chris afterwards and not tried to disrupt the presentation.
I didn't mean this as a personal attack, so hopefully you didn't take it this way. I just wanted to point out my observation of the happenings. It was my understanding from Jason's blog that the bad feelings on his part were from the heckling and not any other reviews/opinions you had about his site.
I'm aware you were vocal about your opinions on Mahalo and it's business model, but I don't remember that in the hall at Gnomedex. Jason obviously had an agenda with his presentation and that was to promote his new site. Heckling, in my opinion, is not cool. If you had a problem with the content, you should have taken it up with Chris afterwards and not tried to disrupt the presentation.
I didn't mean this as a personal attack, so hopefully you didn't take it this way. I just wanted to point out my observation of the happenings. It was my understanding from Jason's blog that the bad feelings on his part were from the heckling and not any other reviews/opinions you had about his site.
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Second, you put in quotes and all caps things that I didn't say and you didn't accurately explain what happened there. Want to rehash it, okay, but lets get both sides equal time, and let's get some other witnesses in here, including people in the chat room, and on twitter, and other people who spoke out *before* I did. Let's get Jason's full transcript and his slides including his "Fuck Nick Denton" line, which he repeated. Rude? I think so and I thought so at the time. Let's get the other people who made comments from the audience during other presentations without waiting for the Q&A, and without waiting to be recognized.
You don't want to rehash it? Good, let's talk about software and UGC, and how we want to go forward with this stuff.