Comments on: Seth Godin likes the megaphone better http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Lynda Morris http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/comment-page-1/#comment-374526 Lynda Morris Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:56:37 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/#comment-374526 Just as an update, Alan Weiss has taken this whole theme even further. For those who don't know, Alan Weiss is the genius behind such books as "Million Dollar Consulting." Alan now Tweets and it is a one-way street, he won't follow any of his audience. This is like giving a lecture in 140 characters, very annoying and very unsatisfying. Just as an update, Alan Weiss has taken this whole theme even further. For those who don't know, Alan Weiss is the genius behind such books as “Million Dollar Consulting.” Alan now Tweets and it is a one-way street, he won't follow any of his audience. This is like giving a lecture in 140 characters, very annoying and very unsatisfying.

]]> By: Lynda Morris http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/comment-page-1/#comment-362114 Lynda Morris Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:56:37 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/#comment-362114 Just as an update, Alan Weiss has taken this whole theme even further. For those who don't know, Alan Weiss is the genius behind such books as "Million Dollar Consulting." Alan now Tweets and it is a one-way street, he won't follow any of his audience. This is like giving a lecture in 140 characters, very annoying and very unsatisfying. Just as an update, Alan Weiss has taken this whole theme even further. For those who don't know, Alan Weiss is the genius behind such books as “Million Dollar Consulting.” Alan now Tweets and it is a one-way street, he won't follow any of his audience. This is like giving a lecture in 140 characters, very annoying and very unsatisfying.

]]> By: Lynda Morris http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/comment-page-1/#comment-362115 Lynda Morris Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:56:37 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/#comment-362115 Just as an update, Alan Weiss has taken this whole theme even further. For those who don't know, Alan Weiss is the genius behind such books as "Million Dollar Consulting." Alan now Tweets and it is a one-way street, he won't follow any of his audience. This is like giving a lecture in 140 characters, very annoying and very unsatisfying. Just as an update, Alan Weiss has taken this whole theme even further. For those who don't know, Alan Weiss is the genius behind such books as “Million Dollar Consulting.” Alan now Tweets and it is a one-way street, he won't follow any of his audience. This is like giving a lecture in 140 characters, very annoying and very unsatisfying.

]]> By: mathew ingram http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/comment-page-1/#comment-18219 mathew ingram Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:20:25 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/#comment-18219 That's a fair point, Al. I agree that some creative types might see it as their place to create and not converse. And if Seth hadn't made being part of the conversation a key theme in his work, I would probably be inclined to give him a pass on the comments thing. That’s a fair point, Al. I agree that some creative types might see it as their place to create and not converse. And if Seth hadn’t made being part of the conversation a key theme in his work, I would probably be inclined to give him a pass on the comments thing.

]]> By: Al http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/comment-page-1/#comment-18193 Al Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:11:13 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/#comment-18193 This whole discussion brings up some interesting questions that remind me of the type of conversations I used to get engaged back in art school. Many hours were spent by the most earnest students discussing whether art was (or should be) the search for original thinking, or technical mastery, or essentially decorative in nature, or a political statement, or an attempt to link into the mystical realm, or a responsibility of those born with talent, etc, In this discussion makes me wonder, Is a blog first and foremost a conversation? Or is it a podium for expressing YOUR ideas? Do you have a responsibility to the blogging ecosystem to include their views, or is it just polite to do so? If you engage in blogging are you honor bound to use ALL of the available tools (Linking, comments, RSS, etc.) or just lame if you do not? If someone doesn't conform to common usage, is it the responsibility of the mob to try to use ridicule to "force" them to do so? Does the whole flap over Godin's decision smell like a traditional MSM game of "gotcha" to anyone? "Hey Godin isn't acting the way the rest of us think he should! Get 'em fellas!" How many of those who are raking Godin over the coals are secretly delighting in the opportunity to take a blogger with much more fame down a peg? About 90% of the Blogosphere's stock-in-trade is composed of people linking/commenting on either a MSM news item or on some discovered original thought. There are relatively few who confine themselved to just worrying about having those original thoughts in the first place. If Seth, who knows how much time and energy he has to devote to his blog better than I do, wants to focus on one aspect to the exclusion of another, I'd rather have him confine himself to the new ideas thing. Judging by the number of links from the blogging community to Seth's posts in the past, it would be best served if he did as well. This whole discussion brings up some interesting questions that remind me of the type of conversations I used to get engaged back in art school. Many hours were spent by the most earnest students discussing whether art was (or should be) the search for original thinking, or technical mastery, or essentially decorative in nature, or a political statement, or an attempt to link into the mystical realm, or a responsibility of those born with talent, etc,

In this discussion makes me wonder, Is a blog first and foremost a conversation? Or is it a podium for expressing YOUR ideas? Do you have a responsibility to the blogging ecosystem to include their views, or is it just polite to do so? If you engage in blogging are you honor bound to use ALL of the available tools (Linking, comments, RSS, etc.) or just lame if you do not? If someone doesn’t conform to common usage, is it the responsibility of the mob to try to use ridicule to “force” them to do so?

Does the whole flap over Godin’s decision smell like a traditional MSM game of “gotcha” to anyone? “Hey Godin isn’t acting the way the rest of us think he should! Get ‘em fellas!” How many of those who are raking Godin over the coals are secretly delighting in the opportunity to take a blogger with much more fame down a peg?

About 90% of the Blogosphere’s stock-in-trade is composed of people linking/commenting on either a MSM news item or on some discovered original thought. There are relatively few who confine themselved to just worrying about having those original thoughts in the first place. If Seth, who knows how much time and energy he has to devote to his blog better than I do, wants to focus on one aspect to the exclusion of another, I’d rather have him confine himself to the new ideas thing. Judging by the number of links from the blogging community to Seth’s posts in the past, it would be best served if he did as well.

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