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 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:26:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: mathew ingram http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/#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-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.

]]> By: (3i) » Blogging cornerstones revisited http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/#comment-16386 (3i) » Blogging cornerstones revisited Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:17:42 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/#comment-16386 [...] In my last post about what I consider to be cornerstones for blogging, I mentioned interacting with the community and soliciting direct and immediate feedback. I took Seth Godin to task for not allowing comments on his blog (as did many other bloggers out there). I felt that by doing so he was shutting down the conversation and not practicing what he preached. I am a firm believer in open conversation and the ability to riff off each other in the comments and create a greater extension of your initial post. That’s one of the beautiful things about blogs. [...] [...] In my last post about what I consider to be cornerstones for blogging, I mentioned interacting with the community and soliciting direct and immediate feedback. I took Seth Godin to task for not allowing comments on his blog (as did many other bloggers out there). I felt that by doing so he was shutting down the conversation and not practicing what he preached. I am a firm believer in open conversation and the ability to riff off each other in the comments and create a greater extension of your initial post. That’s one of the beautiful things about blogs. [...]

]]> By: Explorations in learning http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/#comment-13591 Explorations in learning Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:53:59 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/#comment-13591 <strong>To Comment or Not to Comment</strong> Not having comments means I don't get the point of blogging, at least according to The Carnival of English Language Teaching To Comment or Not to Comment

Not having comments means I don’t get the point of blogging, at least according to The Carnival of English Language Teaching

]]> By: Mathew Ingram http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/#comment-12973 Mathew Ingram Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:07:56 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/06/03/seth-godin-likes-the-megaphone-better/#comment-12973 That's a great idea, Mike. That’s a great idea, Mike.

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