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1 year ago
in http://www.readburner.com/item/46652/is-the-mobile-web-dead-some-mobile-entrepreneurs-say-yes on Read Burner
A new sensibility is needed before mobile apps take off. It's more than push people: it has to be social.
1 year ago
in Who’s Right & Who’s Wrong With 1938Media? on Social Times
I think an analogy is in order. Imagine that Shel is a playwright, and he launched a show. Loren is (for the analogy's sake) another aspiring playwright, who also writes an occasional column for (let's say) The New York Times. He sees a (bad) play, and writes a scathing review, that leads to an exchange of letters, all printed in the New York Times. Plausible? Certainly.
So, first, this is not an indicator of the immaturity of some hypothetical 'social media industry'. This is just a feud between two creatives, a dispute about place, reputation, status, and, yes, media and community attention.
Feldman is funny, so long as the shadenfreude doesn't drop on you personally, like watchin Don Rickles insulting some other schlub at a Las Vegas nightclub.
Second, Israel overreacted to the criticisms and heckling: he's human. Let's get over it. Hell, I've critiqued the work of many people, suggesting they are advocating dumb ideas, or use tenuous logic, or are morally bankrupt, but in most cases it hasn't led to open warfare (although some people do cross to the other side of the street when I pass by).
What is needed is not some namby-pamby etiquette based on 19th notions of civility, but instead, a return to the principles of an open dialogue based on ideas, and the give and take of rational discourse. It is perfectly ok to say that someone's work stinks, that their ideas are second rate, and they should find another job. It's a free country.
All involved have to realize that this is not beanbag. It's serious. It's is our life work that we are putting out here. So passions will run high. We know what we know because of what we believe to be true, and that is what we are exchanging: perceptions of what is true.
Shel needs to focus on his work, and get it honed. If he actually has talent as an interviewer, he'll go far. The results to date are ambiguous, to be generous.
Feldman is funny, in a heckling, drunken-clown-at-the-circus sort of way. We need to have the wild-eyed iconoclast yelling "bullshit" in a society like ours, given to idolizing the well-connected and famous. But if you thought you were at a dinner party, and he were to break out into that mode, you would be very very upset. If it happens at the circus, or a Las Vegas nightclub, you would just laugh.
So one of the issues is: where is this, anyway? We should imagine something halfway between the formal dinner party and a drunken orgy. Perhaps a Michael Arrington barbeque? With lots of booze, and open space, and people smoking ganja behind a bush. A place where we can move from high-minded rhetoric to low gutter humor in one step. Over here there is dancing and laughter, and over there people are breaking up a drunken brawl.
Just don't confuse it with something else, and it all makes sense... in a messy, wonderful, and interesting way.
So, first, this is not an indicator of the immaturity of some hypothetical 'social media industry'. This is just a feud between two creatives, a dispute about place, reputation, status, and, yes, media and community attention.
Feldman is funny, so long as the shadenfreude doesn't drop on you personally, like watchin Don Rickles insulting some other schlub at a Las Vegas nightclub.
Second, Israel overreacted to the criticisms and heckling: he's human. Let's get over it. Hell, I've critiqued the work of many people, suggesting they are advocating dumb ideas, or use tenuous logic, or are morally bankrupt, but in most cases it hasn't led to open warfare (although some people do cross to the other side of the street when I pass by).
What is needed is not some namby-pamby etiquette based on 19th notions of civility, but instead, a return to the principles of an open dialogue based on ideas, and the give and take of rational discourse. It is perfectly ok to say that someone's work stinks, that their ideas are second rate, and they should find another job. It's a free country.
All involved have to realize that this is not beanbag. It's serious. It's is our life work that we are putting out here. So passions will run high. We know what we know because of what we believe to be true, and that is what we are exchanging: perceptions of what is true.
Shel needs to focus on his work, and get it honed. If he actually has talent as an interviewer, he'll go far. The results to date are ambiguous, to be generous.
Feldman is funny, in a heckling, drunken-clown-at-the-circus sort of way. We need to have the wild-eyed iconoclast yelling "bullshit" in a society like ours, given to idolizing the well-connected and famous. But if you thought you were at a dinner party, and he were to break out into that mode, you would be very very upset. If it happens at the circus, or a Las Vegas nightclub, you would just laugh.
So one of the issues is: where is this, anyway? We should imagine something halfway between the formal dinner party and a drunken orgy. Perhaps a Michael Arrington barbeque? With lots of booze, and open space, and people smoking ganja behind a bush. A place where we can move from high-minded rhetoric to low gutter humor in one step. Over here there is dancing and laughter, and over there people are breaking up a drunken brawl.
Just don't confuse it with something else, and it all makes sense... in a messy, wonderful, and interesting way.
1 year ago
in How many Google Reader subscribers do you have? on Scobleizer
You reported that I had 1,057 on Twitter earlier today (which didn't make it into your favorites list), but Feedburner says 1,204 from Google Feedfetch. Note: 11,880 altogether according to Feedburner.
2 years ago
in Missing the mark on Marketing Begins At Home
Actually, I get 10-30 press releases per week, so there are several hundred flacks out there that should immediately drop dead, according to you. (Wink).
Anyhow, I view press releases as being something like the sensationalist tabloids in the supermarket checkout lines: I know they are full of lies and intentionally overblown hyperbole (Bat Boy Found Living In Cave! Madonna Has Sex With ETs!), but they are amusing, and occasionally a glimmer of something interesting sneaks through, despite everything.
But, if your point is that because press releases aren't designed to target people like me and Robert, therefore we should shut up and mind our own business, then you are totally offbase. Many of the arguments supporting socialized press releases have to do with the surprising number of average people accesing them at Yahoo, for example. And, anyway, bloggers are obvious targets of press activities, in case you have been living in Antarctica for the past five years. And even if I weren't an obvious target, I could still have an opinion.
Anyhow, I view press releases as being something like the sensationalist tabloids in the supermarket checkout lines: I know they are full of lies and intentionally overblown hyperbole (Bat Boy Found Living In Cave! Madonna Has Sex With ETs!), but they are amusing, and occasionally a glimmer of something interesting sneaks through, despite everything.
But, if your point is that because press releases aren't designed to target people like me and Robert, therefore we should shut up and mind our own business, then you are totally offbase. Many of the arguments supporting socialized press releases have to do with the surprising number of average people accesing them at Yahoo, for example. And, anyway, bloggers are obvious targets of press activities, in case you have been living in Antarctica for the past five years. And even if I weren't an obvious target, I could still have an opinion.
3 years ago
in Blogs — it’s all about the conversation on Mathew's comments
Don Dodge has suggested inverting the formula, which I am going to propose in a summary post today. That way the index gets larger as the conversation increases.
