Comments on: On Gizmodo’s douchery and blogging

By: Lefty

Lefty — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:57:23 +0000

“Well said”…? He just told you that you’ve single-handedly undone a good deal of work on the part of many people with real integrity, work which resulted in your being handed a press pass to CES, which you then went right out and abused.

Amazing, Richard. You’re a real piece of work.

By: Dennis Bjørn Petersen

Dennis Bjørn Petersen — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:51:27 +0000

Until now all they’ve gotten out of it is free link juice and free publicity.

I wonder what we’ll see next year, unless this has some consequences.

Perhaps someone will set off a stink bomb at MacWorld to ruin “There something in the air” or fill the room with helium.

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:34:02 +0000

that’s classic joel

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:33:30 +0000

it’s not about the blounge, tm, it’s about access. Go start a blog and see how far you get in terms of audience. It will take you about a year to get good traffic and contacts and it’s guys like Rojas and Joel who made it work for all of us. Only a few years ago the only way to write intelligently about tech was to buy a printing press and sell magazines around the world. Now anyone with a burning desire and intelligence can talk to anyone and, as we see, walk around turning off TVs.

By: Matt Hickey

Matt Hickey — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:48:01 +0000

Yes! A comment from THE CmdrTaco! And he’s, uh, plugging Slashdot. Remember Slashdot?

By: drdrew

drdrew — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:17:43 +0000

#6…

By: tm

tm — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:10:39 +0000

dude, you sound like you’re just sad that your “blounge” won’t be stocked next year…go suck some more corporate tit….who cares….screens need turning off sometimes….changes up the atmosphere

By: Dan H.

Dan H. — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:13:01 +0000

This is funny. As someone in the Gizmodo comments pointed out, here’s the original scathing Giz post on TV-B-Gone. Biggs, this was your era, you write this?

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/notag/tv+b+gone-23694.php

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:03:52 +0000

This from the guy who is posting comments to a blog post about blogging. Dude. Tune out, turn off, and go look at the real world for a minute.

By: Gnomey

Gnomey — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:51:08 +0000

Wow, you people need to get a life….and a sense of humor. Tune out, turn off and go look at the real world for a minute.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:54:12 +0000

You are whitewashing what happened. You are also overly optimistic that this tempest will die down, or that people will forget.

I will never forget, and if I ever see Gizmodo approach me, I’ll tell them to leave my booth, and call security if they don’t.

We often did not have remotes on the floor or even easily accessible. The monitors often had power buttons that were unreachable, and we had no chairs. That video wall would have taken us down for potentially 30 minutes.

People spend hundreds of thousands, if not tens of millions, of dollars to be there. These “blog kids” have every right to be there, but they’re also 100% entitled to reap the rewards that they sow just as if I did what they did.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:43:53 +0000

JB, Interesting thoughts on where blogs stand in the media (thank you). Seems there are some growing pains and gray areas as blogs differentiate themselves between ‘on-the-run’ or ‘off-the-run’- and the very nature of the blog as interactive makes this process even less predictable. As always, I think the truth will resonate with readers- an ‘on-the-run’ blog trying draw viewers acting like an ‘off-the-run’ won’t cut it (like Karl Rove rapping). The actions of one blog certainly won’t diminish the (growing) power of blogs in general. Nice to see most comments coming down on the side of ‘do unto others’ in general though.

By: anon

anon — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:51:39 +0000

It is funny, when interns come in to talk shit to the person that helped make Gizmodo what it is today.

Is this the “great content” youre talking about Goldman?
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/hairless-intern/gizmodo-intern-tortured-for-the-cause-301359.php

By: whiskey

whiskey — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:17:51 +0000

So you want mindless traffic is that it? Is gizmodo going to pull another CES on every exhibition they go? Yes that brings traffic, but also drives commenters away. Ah, Benny the Intern, do you really think you are THAT BIG (either you or Gizmodo) that you can survive without us, your audience?

See, boy, the thing is, you owe it all to us, your audience. You are not that good, not that big and show signs of decay… It’s your site and you do as you please (AFAIK from your commentaries), so what then? Keep doing what you do… As an intern maybe some other branch at Gawker will take you when Giz numbers roll down (read it as: when the stupid pranking gets old or starts happening to you).

By: Benny Goldman

Benny Goldman — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:09:23 +0000

The equivalent to this stunt being performed on our site is more “post a spammy comment” or “take a five minute vow to not refresh our site” than kill all of our kittens.

By: Benny Goldman

Benny Goldman — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:05:46 +0000

If I wasn’t so sick of the cookies in the press room (we are considered press after all) I would take it, for bringing you needless traffic.

By: Benny Goldman

Benny Goldman — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:02:43 +0000

I love Vince, but puking on PR reps and shutting off TVs are hardly “similar”. For Biggs to all but directly accuse us of the same thing is offensive, hacky, sensationalist, and a desperate ploy for attention. I realize talking about Giz is an easy traffic grab these days, but how about you work on gear reporting more instead of half-baked analysis and tabloid stories. That’s how we’ve built our traffic, along with important interviews, major scoops, and great content. You’re just the jealous kid in the back of the class snickering to feel better about yourself.

By: Marc M.

Marc M. — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:07:59 +0000

I love this website, I vist it daily if not more than that. But come on was this really that big of a deal? I can understand if they did it to small companys but it was just a bunch of REALLY big companys, nothing came out of this except frustration for a few VERY large well endowed booths for 2 minutes, it’s not a big deal it was funny, time to get over it. But if it was happens again I could understand someone getting upset or angry. Everyone is acting like they went primevil , took a shit in their hands, and threw it at some booth babes.

By: Dan H.

Dan H. — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:05:13 +0000

Oh, and btw, the backlash has begun (with an actual nice shoutout to CrunchGear)

Giz blogger banned for next year’s C.E.S.:

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2008/01/11/tech-blogger-banned-in-las-vegas

By: Dan H.

Dan H. — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:43:28 +0000

Nice post John.

It’s official. Gizmodo has jumped the shark.