Howard Lindzon : The REAL Problem with Mike Arrington and Robert Scoble…
howardlindzon
· 1 year ago
How could Gore have created the internet...i did
KristianHansen
· 1 year ago
sorry forgot that
howardlindzon
· 1 year ago
I am just trying to get to the top of techmeme, something I could not do in the old days :)
Scobleizer
· 1 year ago
You're on TechMeme with this post.
I love it when people feel entitled to attack my entitlements!
howardlindzon
· 1 year ago
Woooot. Scoble you need to go scoble 2.0 man. Way too nice. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
howardlindzon
· 1 year ago
I have liked alley insider here from day one. qualified writers there and henry has some huevos for writing and taking stands because no one gets more flamed with vitriol in the comments than he does. People have short memories about nerd stuff, but not money!
howardlindzon
· 1 year ago
paul - it's my toothaches...If this persists, my mother is next...
ppearlman
· 1 year ago
LOL!!!
Juho Tunkelo
· 1 year ago
"I must say you're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhea." (Ford Fairlane, circa 1990)
howardlindzon
· 1 year ago
Poor ford fairlnae - in fact. Heading to youtube to grab a video...good point dude
timothysykes
· 1 year ago
LOL, great post!
anthonybrown
· 1 year ago
Bravo! The beauty of blogging is that individuals AND corporations can do it, and we (people and companies that blog) own OUR blogs, nobody owns blogging! This group always tends to carry this arrogant attitude about the medium. In animal terms, blogging is more of a colonial system (lots of animals/bloggers that live together in the same area) rather than having any specific hierarchy.
chartreuse
· 1 year ago
l"ightspeed towards done." that's a good line.
howardlindzon
· 1 year ago
Learned it from you my mentor. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
WayneMulligan
· 1 year ago
Great post, but I'm not sure I agree with you and some other folks who have called Cramer the founder of blogging.
At the end of the day, Cramer just took what older (and MUCH bigger) financial newsletter publishers had been doing for decades and brought it online.
Blogging is a conversational publishing platform (the comments add value to the post and vice-versa). To this day I can't comment on articles at TheStreet.com.
-Wayne
flowersjustin
· 1 year ago
Brilliant. Great point - and clarified a little more by anthonybrown - there's nobody that has "taken blogging away." There's always a place for individual blogs.
There are multiple types of blogs and some of them are better at monetizing their material than others, but that doesn't mean that any one can own an entire medium.
howardlindzon
· 1 year ago
mulligan...start a golf blog
liking the conversation.
It's about attitude, gratitude and entitlement. the nerds are the only ones that have bad attitude, no gratitude and oodles of entitlement. That's the only bubble.
It's about a real discussion, not first, big boobies!!!!, this sucks, hope vc's die or your stock goes against you.
It's why I ant to build my community 1 at q tiime and make them feel at home to comment and be answered.
Unless they disagree...fuck em
stevenloi
· 1 year ago
I remember one of the first WallStrip videos, Fred talks about Cramer, blogging, and TheStreet.com. I've also read Cramer's book in how he came up with and executed TheStreet.com (and the lessons he learned from it). Surely 2001 wasn't when blogging started to get rolling especially if Cramer was making a company rolling with all his subscription walls.
TechMeme and Silicon Alley Insider has taken more of my time this year.
Paul Kedrosky
· 1 year ago
Howard, my friend, you need to stop holding back so much in these posts. No-one will know what you mean :-)
he had a great post but it makes no difference whether it appears on techmeme. that site is full of so much self serving whining and garbage that it's totally irrelevant to all but the tiny circle jerk which infest it
howardlindzon
· 1 year ago
Dirk...i still like it for the most part. Even if its gossip started by arrington, I can read someone I trust that's linked just to make sure.
howardlindzon
· 1 year ago
eric - i made it to the top one time the day after wallstrip. would be fun to get back one time more. than I can retire to blogging stocks again.
KristianHansen
· 1 year ago
Glad that Al Gore is not taking credit for creating the first blog.
I stand somewhat corrected. I liked it better before we had wikipedia. Ignorance is bliss.
anonymouse
· 1 year ago
Now what you need to do is emulate scobull properly, take the post back, admit you were wrong and promise never to do it again. Then repeat it in a week. That drives the hits up.
mike not arrington
· 1 year ago
best post I've read since Uncov went dark....
I'm totally sick of the whining too. It's gotten to where to "michael arrington" is a verb - postulate for traffic and press then whine about the strings that come with it
howardlindzon
· 1 year ago
If it is, should be worthy of a real name
dirk Petersen
· 1 year ago
hahahahahaha.
you naied it.
arrington & scoble...are there two more untalented blowhards in the blog universe. amazing that they've come to dominate the conversation. sigh. i suppose that's a talent.
but kudos to you for calling their BS
Andrew Horowitz
· 1 year ago
You know, it seems that blogging has created a jungle of jackasses that are more interested in hits on site than quality of the message/topic. "Now I am a media personality"..thanks worpress, blogger, typepad and others.
I wanted to have Arrington on my podcast to discuss some tech issues that I thought would interest my listeners. I emailed 10 times, no response. Then one day, sent him and email re an AOL/YAHOO screenshot that showed an almost identical homepage design, thinking that an AOL/YAHOO deal could happen. HE REPSONDED within minutes with a quick note and link to a post showing me he had that same idea months before...Arrington 1, Horowitz 0, I suppose
Maybe as a youngster, someone was the last chosen for pickup baseball games??? Perhaps I got it wrong, but it seems that the some of the reasons for blogging has much to do with: LOOK AT ME! I am soooooo important and everyone needs to know what I am doing....
Like I need to know every breath and move on Twitter? Although I enjoyed Howard's Toilet Talk, that was essential reading.
[I have more friends on facebook than you do! I have more Jaiku followers than you do! I am important (even though I have no idea why these people with no lives are interested in me)]
Just look at me. Look at me...PLEASE LOOK AT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need you to tell me I am alright and that you love me...Facebook anyone?
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I love it when people feel entitled to attack my entitlements!
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
point dude
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
At the end of the day, Cramer just took what older (and MUCH bigger) financial newsletter publishers had been doing for decades and brought it online.
Blogging is a conversational publishing platform (the comments add value to the post and vice-versa). To this day I can't comment on articles at TheStreet.com.
-Wayne
There are multiple types of blogs and some of them are better at monetizing their material than others, but that doesn't mean that any one can own an entire medium.
liking the conversation.
It's about attitude, gratitude and entitlement. the nerds are the only ones that have bad attitude, no gratitude and oodles of entitlement. That's the only bubble.
There is never a bubble in ideas.
It's about a real discussion, not first, big boobies!!!!, this sucks, hope vc's die or your stock goes against you.
It's why I ant to build my community 1 at q tiime and make them feel at home to comment and be answered.
Unless they disagree...fuck em
TechMeme and Silicon Alley Insider has taken more of my time this year.
arrington, I can read someone I trust that's linked just to make sure.
I'm totally sick of the whining too. It's gotten to where to "michael arrington" is a verb - postulate for traffic and press then whine about the strings that come with it
you naied it.
arrington & scoble...are there two more untalented blowhards in the blog universe. amazing that they've come to dominate the conversation. sigh. i suppose that's a talent.
but kudos to you for calling their BS
I wanted to have Arrington on my podcast to discuss some tech issues that I thought would interest my listeners. I emailed 10 times, no response. Then one day, sent him and email re an AOL/YAHOO screenshot that showed an almost identical homepage design, thinking that an AOL/YAHOO deal could happen. HE REPSONDED within minutes with a quick note and link to a post showing me he had that same idea months before...Arrington 1, Horowitz 0, I suppose
Maybe as a youngster, someone was the last chosen for pickup baseball games??? Perhaps I got it wrong, but it seems that the some of the reasons for blogging has much to do with: LOOK AT ME! I am soooooo important and everyone needs to know what I am doing....
Like I need to know every breath and move on Twitter? Although I enjoyed Howard's Toilet Talk, that was essential reading.
[I have more friends on facebook than you do! I have more Jaiku followers than you do! I am important (even though I have no idea why these people with no lives are interested in me)]
Just look at me. Look at me...PLEASE LOOK AT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need you to tell me I am alright and that you love me...Facebook anyone?
http://sramanamitra.com/2008/03/12/deal-radar-2...
http://sramanamitra.com/2008/03/20/deal-radar-2...
http://sramanamitra.com/2008/03/20/deal-radar-2...
http://sramanamitra.com/2008/03/11/deal-radar-2...
http://sramanamitra.com/2008/03/10/deal-radar-2...
http://sramanamitra.com/2008/03/06/deal-radar-2...
Sramana