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Re: Friday, March 18, 2005
Doc, fwiw I think that removing yourself completely from the conversation would be an over-reaction and a loss - one of my first memories of podcasting (all those months ago!) was when you kept updating us on the status of the word in Google :) I agree with Dave - I found what you said about your conversation with Evan a little patronising and exclusive, but I also appreciated what you were saying about the marketplace, that there's got to be room for at least three folk to have a go. I think we've gotten a bit caught up in the way that the vendors are framing the conversation. The position these guys sound as if they're taking is that they'd like to have a large number of people contributing to their revenue stream and a challenging competition which they ultimately overcome - entirely understandable as they push substantial bits of their capital into new businesses. I say let's have (at least) three tools to muck around with and see what we like or don't before I start wearing Adam's t-shirt or Evan's, or David's. I think what's come your way is the frustration some people feel about what Evan is doing with Odeo (but not talking about except to carefully invited 'insiders') A blog company that promised (in the papers and at conferences) to transform blogging but had no blog would not be getting away with this. This all comes down to power - who's got it, who wants it, who's pissed off because they think they deserve it but they don't have it, who's secure enough to rise above the melee and wait for the dust to settle? You know the best reparation you could make for this? Use that insider influence you have with the big boys to get the Gillmor Gang back on the air. My weekends are a big empty hole without spending half an hour listening to you listening to the other guys and then chipping in your litle nugget of gold. There are responses to this message:
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