I was about to comment on the whole slapfest at Gnomedex, relishing in the fact, of course, that I am on the other side of the continent, and am absolutely unqualified to write about any of the high school drama going on.
However, I did stumble upon Ethan Kaplan’s blog today — the chap who was at Mesh this year, and who is also the head technology guy for Warner Bros., and who is also wicked smart (who writes a great angry blog — not always angry, but angry sometimes in a good way), and I think he pretty much sums up a lot of sentiment in one sentence:
We pay attention to some stupid fight between overweight white guys inside a conference hall, where outside there are significant problems that we ignore for the sake of our own false prophet building.
Allen Stern remarked over at Mat Ingram’s blog: “ever notice that the drama centers around less than 5 people?”
I think the answer is an unequivocal “YES”. Which should be followed up by an addendum. “Said drama is almost always self-centered navel gazing, which often has no bearing outside of the self-centered navel gazing technology side of the blogosphere.” [yours truly sometimes guilty of that too, however].
August 12th, 2007 at 9:32 pm | Permalink
It’s too bad that the drama took a back seat to the bullsh** about facebook code. So that means we will need double-drama next weekend to make up for it.
We should create a “drama creatr 2.0″ which we would import the names into and then it would generate battles for us :-P Imagine the fun! It could even be an iPhone App!
August 12th, 2007 at 10:15 pm | Permalink
Honestly, I didn’t want any part of this one. I was invited to speak about what I’m passionate about and working on… I tried to speak and I was berated by Dave 3 seconds after I said the word “Mahalo.”
I would have either spoken about another topic, or been an audience member, if ChrisP told me he didn’t want me to talk about Mahalo… but that is what I was there to talk about.
Again, I don’t want to get into Dave’s mind and why he feels the need to berate and scream at people while they are presenting (this is one of many instances)… if I could do it all over again I would have just been a blogger at the event.
I don’t need the promotion or press… everyone there pretty much knows what I’m working on an, frankly, uber-savvy programmers/bloggers in the top .1% of internet users are not the market for Mahalo (we’re going after the mass audience that needs help).
So… I’m still perplexed at why someone would berate someone during their presentation. Berate me during the Q&A? Fine. Berate me on the backchannel? Fine. Berate me on your blog? Sure. However, common courtesy says you let someone speak and then respond.
all the best, j
August 13th, 2007 at 7:05 pm | Permalink
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