I have to say scoble. My opinion of you just dropped tremendously. You more then anyone should know the actions of the few are not indicative of the whole.
As a blogger of all things I thought you might know that. Your own criticisms of the community as a whole based on the actions of a few is a sad commentary about noone other than yourself. They in no way represent myself and many of the people here. Do you normally get up in the middle of a conference and extol on how the negative virtues of the people that attend that conference. I'd love to see that. As to why this community is not growing it's because a) it's as big as it can get and has been for years b) people are smart, they tend to use other means where possible, such as twitter, and dozens or so alternate related discussion groups where they can have more focused discussions. This decentralization has been intentional for many. In order for this thing, whatever you want to call it, to succeed it must decentralize beyond a simple yahoo group. It has. The very thing you're pointing out as a negative many of us see as a tremendous positve. Funny... new sites, growing... who would have thunk it? Did youtube happen becaue of some failing of this community too? I'd love to take credit for that. -Mike mmeiser.com/blog On Dec 23, 2007 10:59 PM, Robert Scoble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >let's not get into a Scoble bashing. > >robert, you cant expect to jump into a community of 2000 people, piss > >on us, and then not get hate. > >do you? > > > > Oh, the old "don't beat up on the community" threat. > > > > It's funny. This community has grown very little over the past year. Why is > that? Especially when compared to the growth in places like YouTube, > Justin.tv, and Seesmic. > > > > In two months Seesmic has gone from zero to more than 1,000 videos posted a > day but we haven't seen anything close to that kind of growth in the > community here. Why is that? > > > > I'm used to the hate. Bring it on. But if you do that'll be just proving me > right. > > > > Instead of attacking maybe the right question is "how can we help each > other?" > > > > I quit Microsoft because of this community (seriously, this community played > a big role in my decision) and it just hasn't lived up to its potential. > > > > Why is that? > > > > Robert Scoble > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
