- I still don’t want to give up my RSS feed
- When your main page on launch day has a headline that reads “Liveblogging the launch,” and you link to Jeff Goldstein’s post that says he’s liveblogging the launch, it is not surprising to find that people who are unfamiliar with Jeff’s humor – which includes bloggers and newspaper writers – are going to think he’s really there, regardless of how silly the post may be. After all, uh, you were advertising him as liveblogging the launch.
- I have no dog in this fight, so I am simply reading both sides of the story and mostly refraining from comment. Except I have to say: Wow, this is the best flamewar I’ve ever not been in, and I’m so glad no one can blame me for it.
- Left-leaning bloggers are as funny and clueless as right-leaning bloggers. When blogwars happen, each side loves to point out how they would never behave in such a rude, mean, childish manner, and it’s so typical of the [choose side] bloggers to do so. Go ahead, pick a flamewar. Change the names. The flames all look the same. The most common denominator, of course, is that both left and right call women the c-word and bitches in equal amounts when tempers run high.
- Most people sinply can’t take criticism. Corollary to that: They can’t own up to their mistakes, either. Fact-checking your ass? It’s a line. They really don’t mean it when it’s their own ass being fact-checked.
Correction: The headline was “Best of the Blogs.” Jeff’s post title was “Liveblogging the Launch.”
both left and right call women the c-word and bitches in equal amounts when tempers run high.
Ugh – isn’t that the truth. Don’t forget “whore,” “slut” and variations thereof.
I’d love to say sexism is dead, but I’d be a fool.
At least they now spell Houston and tech right. ;)
They didn’t have my post listed under “liveblogging.” They had it listed under “Best of the Blogs.”
MY title was “liveblogging the” etc. It was in a smaller pt size.
Jeff, you’re correct about that, but the distinction is pretty difficult to make to the average reader. They’d have had to click on the link to find out that was your post title.
Granted, your “liveblogging” is far enough out there that I would find it difficult to believe even if I didn’t know your writing style, but y’know, there are some pretty clueless people out there.
Evidently so.
The thing is, people weren’t used to the site layout, so a couple of folks got taken in and are pissed about it.
But I’ll tell you this: OSM (or whatever they end up calling themselves) showed me a lot but putting that post up there. They thought it was funny, and they were willing to laugh at themselves. Plus it caused a stir.