Did you wake up on the wrong side of your bunker this morning? On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:44 PM, glen e. p. ropella < g...@agent-based-modeling.com> wrote:
> Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10-02-19 12:24 PM: > > There actually is a complex social network component to the whole > episode. > > I just did a quick back-of-the-envelop addition: during the past 18 > hours, > > approx 500,000 individuals were exposed to the article that I wrote about > > the Newegg interaction. Contact was made via a combination of Facebook, > > mailing lists, and the Linux Today online publication. Newegg's Facebook > > page alone has 249,512 fans subscribed to it. > > > > Information flows faster these days than it used to, if you want it to. > > But what's the point? > > The normal path now would be for you to post some sort of "I got what I > wanted out of Newegg" message to those 500k individuals. This would > demonstrate that Newegg is not such a bad actor after all and/or that > you are a most powerful techie samurai, or whatever. > > But that's not very interesting. This sort of thing happens EVERY DAY > to lots of people. Sure, you had your satisfaction. And you probably > made Newegg a little more bureaucratic and conservative in the process. > > But what have you actually achieved? > > Why have you wasted the time and attention of 500k people? To what > purpose? What's in it for those 500k people? Or did you, perhaps, > simply use the time and attention of those 500k people to get what YOU > wanted? I continue to wonder who the "bad actor" is, here. Newegg, who > would sell crap to unwitting fools and only capitulate when coerced? Or > Doug, the guy who's willing to abuse the time and attention of 500,000 > people because he happens to be mad about something? > > -- > glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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