Comments on: Tip: Don’t pull pin while holding grenade http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/05/26/tip-dont-pull-pin-while-holding-grenade/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:26:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: mathewi http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/05/26/tip-dont-pull-pin-while-holding-grenade/#comment-339887 mathewi Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:09:04 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2440#comment-339887 Agreed -- yet another example of the "Barbra Streisand effect" in action. Agreed — yet another example of the “Barbra Streisand effect” in action.

]]> By: thornley http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2008/05/26/tip-dont-pull-pin-while-holding-grenade/#comment-339885 thornley Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:01:09 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/?p=2440#comment-339885 I was just phoned by a Montreal Gazette reporter doing a follow up story for the newspaper. He asked me for my reaction to Mr. Cavell's assertions that blogs don't matter. <br><br>I actually hadn't heard about this story, having been offline for most of last week. So, while the reporter was talking with me, I searched for MediaScrape in Google. And of course, what came up as the very first organic search result after MediaScrape's own Website? Michael Arrington's TechCrunch post. <br><br>It will be interesting to see how long Arrington's post hangs in at the top of the Google organic search. And as long as it is there, what many people first learn about MediaScrape will be what Mr. Cavell so aggressively tried to stop. Such a futile effort. I was just phoned by a Montreal Gazette reporter doing a follow up story for the newspaper. He asked me for my reaction to Mr. Cavell's assertions that blogs don't matter.

I actually hadn't heard about this story, having been offline for most of last week. So, while the reporter was talking with me, I searched for MediaScrape in Google. And of course, what came up as the very first organic search result after MediaScrape's own Website? Michael Arrington's TechCrunch post.

It will be interesting to see how long Arrington's post hangs in at the top of the Google organic search. And as long as it is there, what many people first learn about MediaScrape will be what Mr. Cavell so aggressively tried to stop. Such a futile effort.

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