Comments on: Gnomedex report: Friday

By: Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » Gnomedex and respect for the crowd

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:13:31 +0000

[...] thoughts (I originally posted on the conference here): I don’t mind that Gnomedex mixed up politics and technology. Heck, I’ve been doing [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:23:05 +0000

re: above
Thanks for clarifying. Basically that reframes the way I look at it–if it is all just a long diverse list of extreme positions a political talk can seem like theater. I guess maybe something like that was going on with that speech in your view so even the arguments you agreed with sounded less than credible–or something.

By: Joared

Joared — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:18:02 +0000

Glad to see you made note of Ronni Bennett’s Gnomedex presentation. We surely can benefit from more elder friendly computers, and the support toward that end from people such as yourself. You’ll be one of us one of these years and can benefit, too. I found T Flash Commenters views of her segment interesting, some of which I quoted on my blog.

By: j.j. toothman » Yet Another Gnomedex Recap

j.j. toothman » Yet Another Gnomedex Recap — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:14:21 +0000

[...] summaries and recaps of the presentations that took place, there’s a lot of good ones already posted throughout the [...]

By: William Smith

William Smith — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:50:26 +0000

Best recap of the Steele presentation I’ve seen. You were spot on with the Calacanis / Winer exchange also. Excellent write up Scott!

By: Nordquist Blog » Blog Archive » My favorite Gnomedex 2007 reviews

Nordquist Blog » Blog Archive » My favorite Gnomedex 2007 reviews — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:16:52 +0000

[...] Scott Rosenberg - Scott provides a thoughtful run down of the sessions. I enjoyed his review of the Calacanis controversy. [...]

By: Thoughts on Gnomedex and Video of My Talk

Thoughts on Gnomedex and Video of My Talk — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:53:14 +0000

[...] Scott Rosenberg [...]

By: Adam Jusko

Adam Jusko — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:00:32 +0000

Our site Bessed is a human-powered search engine launched a little while before Mahalo. One of the places where I think we and Mahalo are most in disagreement, however, is where the problem is in search, and I think your post points to it. It’s really not in the short head but instead in the long tail, and that’s where we’re trying to focus. It’s pretty easy to find good sites on Google if your search is for iPod, but more questionable if your search is for a Mickey Mouse comforter, and so we’re focused on using humans to sift through the junk on these longer tail searches and provide the best of what is out there.

You are definitely right that Mahalo is no blow against spam, although it’s a good marketing angle. Calacanis’ hope is to SEO Mahalo to be ranked highly in existing search engines, not replace them. Frankly that’s our goal, too, but we’re mainly targeting searches where we believe there’s more pain from the searcher’s view, so that our results are welcomed as well-organized lists of good sites for searches that would otherwise be frustrating.

By: Scott Rosenberg

Scott Rosenberg — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:21:50 +0000

Like I said: “There was something here for anyone to agree with, something else for anyone to disagree with.” What I think of Kissinger’s criminality isn’t the point (this is one where I tend to agree with Steele); I was hoping to suggest Steele’s complete lack of coherence. He just threw out these intentionally provocative positions in all possible directions without actually making a case for any of them.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:43:13 +0000

“Henry Kissinger is a war criminal”
Yes, yes he is. Oh, or is saying obvious things like that what makes one a “crackpot?”
You’re one of those “serious” people, right?