Comments on: Jerry doesn’t get it.

By: David Gonzalez

David Gonzalez — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:02:10 +0000

great post Marc. I agree.
I can hear Scooby saying, “Rut Ro” on behalf of Jerry.

I don’t know Jerry, never even heard of him until now, but couldn’t help but think this is a ploy. One of the best ways to generate buzz is to create & stir up controversy. It’s just strange to do it in such a way that it attacks members of one’s own tribe (assuming that Social Media is a tribe and Twitter is a sub-tribe).

Maybe he’ll speak up and say that posting that was a dare from someone.

Otherwise, he’s free to keep his head snugly up his ass.

-D

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:32:47 +0000

Thanks for the link. I missed it. But I just commented over there; check it out.

Like Paul, I respect Jerry. And I know him personally; we had lunch a while back. I’m curious to hear his response. And yours.

Oh, and Marc, any chance you could install the “Subscribe to Comments” WP plugin so I can get email responses to future comments? Here’s a link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/

It should work on wordpress.com, not sure.

By: Paul Chaney

Paul Chaney — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:12:56 +0000

I was appauled by Jerry’s comments really. I mean, I respect the guy. He’s doing some good work and has found a niche with these sponsored sites. (We should all be so lucky as to have companies like SAP to sponsor us, then find suckers like you and me to provide the content for free. I mean, what could be better than that!)

But his is as ill-informed and naive an opinion as I’ve seen and he should know better.