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Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:31:45 -0000

Were you really? I'm trying to get to the bottom of an issue you have with
us, and instead of responding seriously, you throw poor excuses for jokes.
Would you have all the companies in DEMO take down their websites and issue
DMCA notices to whomever has written about them in the past until 7AM
tomorrow? Get real. Quit covering for the fact that you didn't actually
look at these websites, as you claim. Otherwise you never would have said
the things you said.

This isn't a press release reprint. Again, back up your claim - if it's a
press release, show me the original.

What it is - and you know this because you're not as big of a moron as
you're pretending to be - is an announcement of future coverage.

It's more expedient for you to pretend to be a moron, though. Thing is, you
keep it up and people will start to believe that it isn't an act anymore.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:31:30 -0000

I didn't lower myself to the gutter, so much as defend myself and point out
what it is your doing and what your motivations are. It's one thing when
people make accusations in private, and we can discuss and straighten things
out in private. You shot your mouth off in full view, and then ran out to
FriendFeed to repeat your accusations, and had at least 30 or so comments
come along behind you and say "mee too! whatever Robert just said!"

It's called "brand management," and you're just being intentionally obtuse
at this point. If someone's going around badmouthing your company and your
work, you don't just ignore it, you address it. Why are you here running
your mouth off here and digging yourself a deeper hole? If I'm wrong,
shouldn't you be either proving otherwise or ignoring me?

The thing is, I have a voice and people listen to what I say, same as you.
What is most puzzling to me and others reading this is why you continue to
sling dirt and obfuscate the issue rather than back up your claims with any
sort of fact.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:55:35 -0000

I'm a nice guy, but I can also be a defensive guy when I see people attacked without reason (including my co-workers). As I said in the video, I really used to enjoy Robert's presence in the blogosphere, since he's usually such an easy and willing foil.

Thanks for hanging out. The journalism post is currently scheduled to go out Monday. Hopefully all the final touches will be ready by then. :)

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:41:36 -0000

If you looked at the sites at all, Robert, these videos were listed freely available on the PlasticLogic website. If you'd looked at the websites like you said you did, you would have seen the link to the publicly available videos. Is that sort of like, say, not doing your research and writing something up without any actual knowledge of the product?

Look, I can't speak for every writer at Mashable (they can speak for themselves and many did so in the comments on the original article)... when it comes to a review, we use the service. When it comes a funding announcement or an unreleased feature announcement - sure - we write off the press release. It's not something you can do much about.

It's pretty difficult to take a funding announcement out for a spin before you write it up. That still doesn't mean we're simply re-writing a press release, though. We also analyze how the funding announcment will impact the business, the sector and the industry if possible.

We insert analysis of some kind into every post we do. For you to belittle it as simply "re-writing a press release" is still insulting. It still is demeaning to what we do.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:12:17 -0000

That's odd - it's playing for me. You might try clicking the link below the embed and watching it directly on UStream's site.

Re: The New Google Chrome Browser - All Of The Best Video Clips To Learn Everything About It

rizzn — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:13:13 -0000

Hah! Good work then. Kudos on taking the time.

Re: The New Google Chrome Browser - All Of The Best Video Clips To Learn Everything About It

rizzn — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:50:00 -0000

Very cool - did you take the time to tap out the transcripts, or is it from some voice recog software you're using?

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:07:07 -0000

No problemo. :-).
I'm not doom and gloom all the time, and as a few on FriendFeed noted this
evening, I even admit it when I'm wrong from time to time.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:12:24 -0000

Noted.
Now I'm curious as to why Lively never worked for me. I don't run
ZoneAlarm.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:03:24 -0000

That's the same error I got when I tried to install Lively. I never found a workaround for it, but didn't experience the error with Chrome.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:46:53 -0000

FF gives me good days and bad days. Keep in mind that I'm on a computer almost 24/7, so I put a browser thru it's paces.

Some days I just long for the old Web 1.0 era. Browsers seemed much stabler back then, but perhaps that's just my memory rosifying up the truth that things were about the same then as now.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:45:16 -0000

From those I've talked to, the problem spans platform, too. Kristen and Alana both experienced this issue on their powerbooks over at Mashable.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:33:56 -0000

Hah! I highly doubt that'll happen. (not that I doubt we'll meet some day, I doubt the other thing about not being able to stand you...).

:-p

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:32:26 -0000

I don't have plans to come down, but if you get an alternative party going, I'm sure I could probably twist my wife's arm to head down there with me. I'll ask her tomorrow. :)

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:38:19 -0000

No worries. More readers the better.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:56:35 -0000

Years ago I tried to venture into that world - it's pretty insular and difficult for an outsider like me to figure out. If you have any experience in that world, I'd me more than happy for some guideposts or any help.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:55:33 -0000

Now that I think of it, though, I might start posting these in much smaller chunks. Either most of you are still trying to digest all of this, or the majority of you simply skipped it. Not sure which. Thoughts?

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:48:12 -0000

Thanks. I'm glad you liked it. I'm a lecturer / public speaker at heart, so I imagined what I'd need to say to lay the foundation for the advanced concepts I wanted to tackle in the branches and went from there.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:46:29 -0000

You're right, I think this is generally targeted to folks who are interested in the industry but not working on it from the inside. I wanted to explain the concepts and themes foundationally here so that I could refer back to them in future posts (or, if it ever gets to that point, chapters - who knows, dream big).

Not to mention, I guess, that writing for Mashable has sorta trained me to not do the shorthand thing as much. Increasingly, we're writing over there for wider audiences who don't necessarily know all the jargon and ins and outs of everything.

You're right, though. For those of us in the know, I coulda basically said "the conversation is the blog is the news" and built from there.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:29:50 -0000

Indeed... I'm just covering my basis. :-p

FWIW, I definitely agree with you on your points - these are poor implementations of technology, and as a technologist, I felt it necessary to speak up for my (as of current, anyway) less than sentient friends.

The "bots", as it were, still need humans who know how to use the right tool for the right job and then configure it properly. Using these tools, I think a much more personal, transparent, and expedient approach can be taken to most things.

In the end, a net win for everyone.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:29:53 -0000

Heh - I thought you might like this one. As you know, I welcome our new robot overlords, and look forward to their *kind and benevolent* rule. You hear that, Googlebot? Kind and benevolent!

Re: In a polarized society, will moderate viewpoints die?

rizzn — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:05:11 -0000

Spot on with a lot of what you're saying here, and your comments on Old v. New Media resonate with me.

Our terminology (like in many things in our corner of tech) continues to get muddled, and it's hard to distinguish the method vs the organizational type, and which one will die, how and why.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:27:55 -0000

I appreciate your comments - amongst the nicest I've received all day.

It's pretty par for the course there at Mashable for the "haterz" to come out and play. A lot of my friends and folks who used to comment on all of my articles have actually been staying away, though I'm not sure if the two things are related.

Incidentally, if you have the time to spend, there's also a strong showing of Alex Jones fans starting to filter into the comments, too. One of them actually uses the phrase "we're in the woodwork," another bit of linguistic acrobatics that's almost worth wading through the junk to find.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:23:07 -0000

Well, if you mean this post, probably not, since I'm not an important enough blogger to be listed there.

If you mean the others I mentioned above, I don't think they ever really come in conjunction with one another, so it never really attracted enough attention to get a headline.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

rizzn — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:58:21 -0000

There are tons of folks who covered this territory much better. EFF, Wired, TechDirt, TLF, just to name a few.