Comments on: Corporate awareness of all things - anything http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/12/corporate-awareness-of-all-things-anything Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:55:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Happy New Year links http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/12/corporate-awareness-of-all-things-anything#comment-237468 Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Happy New Year links Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:22:47 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/12/corporate-awareness-of-all-things-anything#comment-237468 [...] Morten Frederiksen testifies that there was at least ONE of faulty shitty code that would have broke at Y2K.  I have never met this kind of code - but I’m sure it exists. [...] […] Morten Frederiksen testifies that there was at least ONE of faulty shitty code that would have broke at Y2K.  I have never met this kind of code - but I’m sure it exists. […]

]]> By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Retort back from Jason - who’s a VC now http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/12/corporate-awareness-of-all-things-anything#comment-237448 Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Retort back from Jason - who’s a VC now Sun, 31 Dec 2006 19:15:33 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/12/corporate-awareness-of-all-things-anything#comment-237448 [...] Jason Calacanis took exception to my statements that what he’s doing is the same as what we did with Marqui: [...] […] Jason Calacanis took exception to my statements that what he’s doing is the same as what we did with Marqui: […]

]]> By: Jason http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/12/corporate-awareness-of-all-things-anything#comment-237444 Jason Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:24:02 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/12/corporate-awareness-of-all-things-anything#comment-237444 100% incorrect my friend. You may not have told people if they had to write a positive or negative review, but you did force them to write about Marqui. We on the other hand told folks to pick their own topics and tone. So, you are comparing what you did--which was between a bribe and an advertisement--with what we did which was ethical blogging/journalism. Note: That was a very lame attempt to spin my position... I expect much more from you. :-) 100% incorrect my friend.

You may not have told people if they had to write a positive or negative review, but you did force them to write about Marqui. We on the other hand told folks to pick their own topics and tone. So, you are comparing what you did–which was between a bribe and an advertisement–with what we did which was ethical blogging/journalism.

Note: That was a very lame attempt to spin my position… I expect much more from you. :-)

]]> By: gil cross http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/12/corporate-awareness-of-all-things-anything#comment-237441 gil cross Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:45:40 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/12/corporate-awareness-of-all-things-anything#comment-237441 hustle? You bit ya. Why can't we say that when we are on payroll? Because we are on payroll. We used to talk until they started firing us and then we became silent. I know because I was one of the talking employee and then the talking consultant. Money makes a strange bedfellow. Talk, good talk, is expensive. If not, try this experiment. When someone has something good to say ask if they are willing to make a recording. Right there, right now. Watch them get silent. Once it becomes known that you "talk", you'd be surprised at all the silent people who will be listening to you. And you will be surprised about how long you hold your job. Maybe my being black adds something to this, but, believe me, I have seen white people follow the same doom. Corporate America don't want to be given anything unless they pay. If you try, it is perceived as "trying" to get more than you deserve. Gil hustle?
You bit ya. Why can’t we say that when we are on payroll? Because we are on payroll. We used to talk until they started firing us and then we became silent. I know because I was one of the talking employee and then the talking consultant.
Money makes a strange bedfellow. Talk, good talk, is expensive. If not, try this experiment. When someone has something good to say ask if they are willing to make a recording. Right there, right now.
Watch them get silent.
Once it becomes known that you “talk”, you’d be surprised at all the silent people who will be listening to you. And you will be surprised about how long you hold your job.
Maybe my being black adds something to this, but, believe me, I have seen white people follow
the same doom. Corporate America don’t want to be given anything unless they pay.
If you try, it is perceived as “trying” to get more than you deserve.

Gil

]]> By: Jeremy Pepper http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/12/corporate-awareness-of-all-things-anything#comment-237423 Jeremy Pepper Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:09:57 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/12/corporate-awareness-of-all-things-anything#comment-237423 Marc, just because one hustles - using your term - for work, does not preclude the ability to be open and transparent. Yes, I work for corporations and companies based here and oversees, but am I hustling for them or am I working with them to get them to understand the conversation You work on clients as a consultant. Does this make you a hustler as well? Or, looking at it another way, with the last line in the post (above the note) aren't you hustling for PeopleAggregator? Yes, it is your company ... but you are still hustling. You hire marketing firms to get the word out - is that considered a bad decision, according to this post? Marc, just because one hustles - using your term - for work, does not preclude the ability to be open and transparent. Yes, I work for corporations and companies based here and oversees, but am I hustling for them or am I working with them to get them to understand the conversation

You work on clients as a consultant. Does this make you a hustler as well?

Or, looking at it another way, with the last line in the post (above the note) aren’t you hustling for PeopleAggregator? Yes, it is your company … but you are still hustling. You hire marketing firms to get the word out - is that considered a bad decision, according to this post?

]]> By: Morten Frederiksen http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/12/corporate-awareness-of-all-things-anything#comment-237304 Morten Frederiksen Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:45:29 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2006/12/corporate-awareness-of-all-things-anything#comment-237304 Marc, As much as I respect you, I have to tell you that you are wrong about Y2K. It was not (only) a scam. There might very well have been people taking advantage of the situation, but there were real problems. The place I worked for had several date-sorting routines and deriviates dating back to the seventies and eighties, using only two digits for the year. We managed to find and fix most of them in time, yet we still had to use the first weeks of 2000 fixing a couple more. If we hadn't taken the time to fix it (the year before), we would have spent loads of time fixing errors down stream as well... Was it the right decision back in those days to only use two digits for the year? I don't know... Marc,

As much as I respect you, I have to tell you that you are wrong about Y2K. It was not (only) a scam. There might very well have been people taking advantage of the situation, but there were real problems.

The place I worked for had several date-sorting routines and deriviates dating back to the seventies and eighties, using only two digits for the year. We managed to find and fix most of them in time, yet we still had to use the first weeks of 2000 fixing a couple more. If we hadn’t taken the time to fix it (the year before), we would have spent loads of time fixing errors down stream as well…

Was it the right decision back in those days to only use two digits for the year? I don’t know…

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