Personally, this is the most exciting thing I've seen since the Wikipedia Storm of '07.
Heath, it's definitely a pattern I know and enjoy and Dennis, you may be right that it has very little to do with "Videoblogging" but it is very much "the videoblogging group." :) I always found it interesting to have an inside perspective of this medium's moguls. I doubt there's a Yahoo Group in which Rupert Murdoch contributes. As a side note to Andrew, I have to stand up for Steve here as he's often the voice of reason in this group and in a past experience had stood up for me and Wikipedia's core content policies when it was the very unpopular thing to do. However there is something to be said for for being concise in discussions. I once heard from a wise source: Posts longer than 100 words are difficult to understand and are frequently either ignored, misunderstood or misinterpreted. darn...151 words...now 156... On Nov 13, 2007 5:05 AM, Andrew Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Nov 12, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Steve Watkins wrote: > > > So whilst I admired the fact that rocketboom didn't seem to be > > > selling out in the > > usual sense, for money, I became disturbed by some possible signs > > that Mr Baron was > > seeking to achieve a different sort of power. > > AH YES!!! Its all about power, mwahahahahaha!!!!! But what kind of > Power did you say!? A DIFFERENT kind?? MMMMM I like the sound of > this . . . . A NEW kind of Power! BETTER THAN MONEY!!!???? > > Speaking of power Steve, I dare you to not respond to a single thread > on this list. Ill bet you can't do it in under 5000 words. > > Speaking of Jason, he's most known for: > > 1. Stealing the idea and the people from Gizmodo to make the > identical knock off- Engagdget > 2. Not paying employees fair wages. > 3. Trying to steal Amanda from Rocketboom (only one day after news > broke) > 4. Trying to steal top posters from Digg for Netscape > 2. Killing Netscape by making it into a Diggclone and then getting > fired from AOL > 3. Building a site called Mahalo which is suffering badly and no one > likes. > > Not just based on these few examples which have been extremely > destructive to the world, but also based on his regular, > stereotypical activity of attacking people instead of their work, I > just want to throw out that Jason's only means of being popular is > exactly this: taking and causing conflict. > > Look no further than Ann Coulter. It works great for her. If they > can't do it based on their own good ideas and they cant do it while > collaborating with others, at least they can do it by shitting all > over everyone. > > Usually a good post has a lot of conversation but doesn't cause > others to speak out so negatively at the author. This is likely the > reason why there have been SO MANY bad reactions to Jason's post: > When one lives their life so selfishly while attacking and being > brutal, its destructive to everyone around because it causes damage > and rubs off on the rest off. > > My original answer to the original thread was likely not considered. > The best way to grow your audience is not by spamming everyone. Its > by improving your show. At this point Jason, you really shouldn't be > asking any other questions until you get that one worked out. You got > Veronica, she's great. You should be paying Veronica more, you need > to invest in some better equipment and get some production help. How > can you improve the show? > > We ask ourselves this question every single day and it continues to > receive the most concern out of every thing we do. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >
