Comments on: Seesmic and Twhirl: Why all the fuss? http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/04/seesmic-and-twhirl-why-all-the-fuss/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:42:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Roger Kondrat http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/04/seesmic-and-twhirl-why-all-the-fuss/#comment-341489 Roger Kondrat Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:12:56 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2314#comment-341489 @Andrew I do this to Twitter too. For me Twitter is just a vehicle, but I think Matt's point is that he wasn't being deceptive and / or pushy. I just have an auto twitter in my WP and it automatically pushes out the articles. I don't try to make them any more or less than what they are and my followers know to expect them and if they so desire to read them.<br><br>@Matt I agree with your attitude but in a hawkish environment such as the online media world is you need hardcore titles to get attention that being said making it personal and being salacious is not the way to go. <br><br>Principled and disciplined is the way forward if we want to get respect and grow our readership. @Andrew I do this to Twitter too. For me Twitter is just a vehicle, but I think Matt's point is that he wasn't being deceptive and / or pushy. I just have an auto twitter in my WP and it automatically pushes out the articles. I don't try to make them any more or less than what they are and my followers know to expect them and if they so desire to read them.

@Matt I agree with your attitude but in a hawkish environment such as the online media world is you need hardcore titles to get attention that being said making it personal and being salacious is not the way to go.

Principled and disciplined is the way forward if we want to get respect and grow our readership.

]]> By: Roger Kondrat http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/04/seesmic-and-twhirl-why-all-the-fuss/#comment-341482 Roger Kondrat Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:08:06 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2314#comment-341482 @Luca@Mat, totally agree, before the web we worried about companies like TimeWarner controlling everything we read and now we have so many different websites jockeying for readers that they end up in essence writing about the same material. <br><br>More is not always better I guess. Is the content today journalism? It certainly is not investigative or introspective.<br><br>@Matt can you email me as I want to do a podcast with you. Should be easy to get in touch with me as I am registered with Disqus.<br><br>Cheers to all<br>Roger @Luca@Mat, totally agree, before the web we worried about companies like TimeWarner controlling everything we read and now we have so many different websites jockeying for readers that they end up in essence writing about the same material.

More is not always better I guess. Is the content today journalism? It certainly is not investigative or introspective.

@Matt can you email me as I want to do a podcast with you. Should be easy to get in touch with me as I am registered with Disqus.

Cheers to all
Roger

]]> By: Jeremy Toeman http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/04/seesmic-and-twhirl-why-all-the-fuss/#comment-341488 Jeremy Toeman Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:54:55 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2314#comment-341488 I also can't figure out why SO MANY people are covering this topic?!?! 2 startups that are effectively unknown outside of the 94xxx zip code (yourself not included Mathew!) are all over the place today... bizarre. I also can't figure out why SO MANY people are covering this topic?!?! 2 startups that are effectively unknown outside of the 94xxx zip code (yourself not included Mathew!) are all over the place today… bizarre.

]]> By: robsafuto http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/04/seesmic-and-twhirl-why-all-the-fuss/#comment-341487 robsafuto Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:51:44 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2314#comment-341487 I'm feeling very jaded today so I think that you're probably right about it being a slow news day. Seesmic has a problem in that their user base is passionate, but it's also very small. Twitter is at what 600K users? Seesmic has probably in the low double-digit thousands. So Seesmic needs to do something to get attention in order to build their user base. The Twirl buy is this week's attention getter. I'm feeling very jaded today so I think that you're probably right about it being a slow news day. Seesmic has a problem in that their user base is passionate, but it's also very small. Twitter is at what 600K users? Seesmic has probably in the low double-digit thousands. So Seesmic needs to do something to get attention in order to build their user base. The Twirl buy is this week's attention getter.

]]> By: mathewi http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/04/04/seesmic-and-twhirl-why-all-the-fuss/#comment-341486 mathewi Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:30:04 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2314#comment-341486 Point taken, Andrew. But at least I didn't say "Hey, I posted a new<br>blog post -- come and read it!" and then force you to watch a bunch of<br>boring video :-) Point taken, Andrew. But at least I didn't say “Hey, I posted a new
blog post — come and read it!” and then force you to watch a bunch of
boring video :-)

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