Twitter Me This Road Trip

Oh, and one more thing… I respect the fact that you are not filtering my comments I’ll give you that one.

Ok semantics of “business relationship” aside, you were “co-involved venture participants”.

Shawn, there are more ways on voicing delivering criticism than public campaign of criticism vs. smile and say it’s great.

If your reacted to me negatively in person over my “criticism” of you here, would I be surprised or be questioning? No….

Likewise, if you were like, “hey dude, what’s up?” and shook my hand….I wouldn’t be surprised either and I’d embrace it.

You delivered some pretty strong criticism, publicly, of a guy you had some kind of “relationship” with. Expect people to be like….dude you’re an XXXX.

Actually the whole thing…it’s all so juvenile….but I just can’t resist a debate.

Sam – what point exactly did you get across? If you wanted to do a puppet show…ok fine: do a puppet show. You CHOSE to make the puppet represent Jim himself. You mimicked/mocked his speech pattern. Sam, slice it and dice it however you want….it smells like a personal attack to me. It was an attempt to marginalize Jim personally in regard to his twittermethis service.

Now Sam, what did you accomplish? In actuality, just because of your approach, you probably drove many people to EMBRACE twittermethis that would have otherwise ignored it completely. I wonder if Jim realizes this.

You expressed to me on twitter that people are missing the point. What was the point?

a) Were you just trying to get people to talk about it? (SUCCESS)

b) Were you trying to help Jim out by being contrarian and being so negative you drive some people to embrace his service? (SUCCESS)

c) Were you trying to publicize a silly concept and give more attention to it thus more popularity to it? (SUCCESS)

d) Were you trying to deliver an OBJECTIVE and CONVINCING yet entertaining criticism of the service itself? (FAIL)

Sam, it smells like a personal attack. Many people see it this way. Marketing is uncomfortable….ok…but you seemed to choose the low road here. What you accomplished in real terms is probably not what you intended (unless this all turns out to be some scheme). Generally, that’s what happens when you take the low road.

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I’ve never been a business partner with Jim or Shawn. GeekCast is a project we all work (or worked I guess) on, but it’s not a business by any means.

I’m also not trying to be Loren here. He’s Loren enough for everyone. I just thought I’d have some fun voicing my criticism of TwitterMeThis (with an ironic twist given the puppet fascination people have these days) instead of doing yet another blog post that no one will read. It’s gotten people talking and thinking, so I’ve gotten my point across.

Marketing is uncomfortable sometimes. Doesn’t make anyone a better or a worse person… remember this is showbusiness, not showfriends.

Unless you have some agenda that you’re going to share with us, I don’t see how calling someone names on their own blog is supposed to do anything.

Calling someone a “douche” reflects more on your lack of upbringing more than anything else.

So you might want to think before you speak or type comments in the future.

Shawn… you are REALLY stooping now. How old are you? You’re acting a complete douche.

As an outside observer, i notice the following points:

1) if i was upset with somebody, and they came up to me with a flip (even with the best of intentions), I might not be a happy camper.

2) from the perspective of the happy camper, i’d probably say something like ‘if you want to talk about it, turn off the camera OR let’s about it man-to-man with the cameras off.

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with the continuing sequences of twits and videos, the situation is kinda taking on loren feldman/shel israel proportions for me.

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pretty dramatic linkbait though, i’m just thinking about the relationships you guys have built up over the years that are gonna bear the brunt of these exchanges.

Now who’s being rude?

This calls for another puppet vid!