Comments on: My BlogTV.ca eulogy: Good riddance http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/09/22/blogtvca-good-riddance/ ... 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: Jim Courtney http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/09/22/blogtvca-good-riddance/comment-page-1/#comment-332847 Jim Courtney Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:04:33 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/09/22/blogtvca-good-riddance/#comment-332847 My experience with blogtv.ca was so bad it's worth repeating here what I commented to Mark Evans post on this. Here is a real problem for blogtv.ca. Earlier this week Jeff Pulver was asking people to watch his blogtv broadcast, so I type in the URL he gave — blogtv.com/Shows/96 - and what do I get? A redirect to blogtv.ca with access to only Canadian content. Come on guys and gals, the Internet ignores borders — especially when you’re trying to launch a service that needs user generated content. If I can’t get content from my US acquaintances, (or from anywhere else worldwide), I’m not going to use the service. Do a search at blogtv.ca on Pulver or Scoble and you come up dry. Blogtv.ca executives must be ex-CRTC people, thinking they know better than I what is good for Canadians to see. Tonight I could still get blogtv.ca but if they are going off the air, they deserve to die. My experience with blogtv.ca was so bad it’s worth repeating here what I commented to Mark Evans post on this.

Here is a real problem for blogtv.ca. Earlier this week Jeff Pulver was asking people to watch his blogtv broadcast, so I type in the URL he gave — blogtv.com/Shows/96 – and what do I get? A redirect to blogtv.ca with access to only Canadian content. Come on guys and gals, the Internet ignores borders — especially when you’re trying to launch a service that needs user generated content. If I can’t get content from my US acquaintances, (or from anywhere else worldwide), I’m not going to use the service.

Do a search at blogtv.ca on Pulver or Scoble and you come up dry.

Blogtv.ca executives must be ex-CRTC people, thinking they know better than I what is good for Canadians to see. Tonight I could still get blogtv.ca but if they are going off the air, they deserve to die.

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