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A year old article about "internet people" having some sense of entitlement about other's work? Hardly a coincidence. It's Gruber's answer to the HN thread & t
by barredo 14y ago
A year old article about "internet people" having some sense of entitlement about other's work? Hardly a coincidence.
It's Gruber's answer to the HN thread & tweets of last week.
- nickmain 14y agoOne of the tweets that John chose to retweet was a reference to Joan Rivers leaving Johnny Carson - https://twitter.com/#!/dr_mind_bender/status/203903404953714689 https://twitter.com/#!/dr_mind_bender/status/203903404953714... It seems that he thinks of podcasts like late night TV - where the audience is just an abstract statistic. In Dan's response above he makes a reference to drive-time radio talk shows and the sense of relationship (albeit one-way) that comes from that medium. He sees his audience as individual people whereas John only sees the audience as a revenue source.
- eduo 14y agoThe article, though, is spot-on. The problem, to my eyes, is that it doesn't really vibe with the situation. People are not complaining that they didn't have a say. Most people I've read seem to understand the reasoning behind the initial decision. What the complaints are about are not about John's decision to leave 5by5 but about the dickish way he decided to do it. Being a bigger dick afterwards by implying he can do whatever he wants with his podcast (won't even go into how bad it looks that he sees TTS as "his" podcast and not the job of the two, regardless of him being the star host) doesn't help. The wording of the announcement and the hyperbole he lavishes muleradio with make the whole thing even worse.
- slantyyz 14y agoIn a previous life, Gruber might have called himself the "Jackass of the Week" for posting such a link, given how he makes his living from preaching to the choir.