Comments on: this is really bizarre…

By: Buzz Bruggeman

Buzz Bruggeman — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:56:02 +0000

Hey…I thought it was a great piece! Thanks for running it. And, I would be remiss in not suggesting that I would be happy to give you a copy of ActiveWords. Blogs rock! Many days half of our downloads come because of people blogging about us.

By: Ben Wharton

Ben Wharton — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:14:00 +0000

Totally straight. I obviously have deep issues with hyperbole. [I am smiling at this point — but of course, in all seriousness]
Reminds me of an old episode of Star Trek.

By: cynthia

cynthia — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:06:45 +0000

are you taking my hyperbolic statement literally or is that intended to be humor?

By: Ben Wharton

Ben Wharton — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:39:49 +0000

Why anyone comments about anything is not worth a thesis — we either approve/disaprove/want to score points/want to add to a discussion/are bored/want to jack off/fancy the person we’re conversing with/hate the person we’re conversing with/need to support them because they’re supporting us/need to destroy them because they’re stopping us supporting ourseleves or our loved ones or employeed ones/we’re trying to sell something/we’re trying to buy something/we like talking to strangers/we like the look of our words in print or on the web/we’re lonely/we want to make a friend/we want to improve our (chosen language)/the person has touched something that’s been bothering us and now we need to bother other people about it to help us to think more clearly about our emotional state.
There’s a few more, but nothing worth 50,000 words — or three letters.
I guess I haven’t been part of Hugh’s audience for long enough. A return to form? I love Dark comedy — that was two weeks ago or thereabouts.
This is, well, bitter. That seems about right.

By: cynthia

cynthia — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:14:54 +0000

if you’ve been reading hugh’s blog long enough you know that the latest cartoons are a return to form, not a new direction. hugh’s audience is not only divided, but polarized. some of us love the dark comedy and get bored and drift away with the branding/marketing stuff. but we pop up again when he brings it back. a psychology thesis could be written about how we all reveal ourselves based on which posts we choose to comment on.

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 08:14:33 +0000

Yay! Markets making decisions!

By: Ben Wharton

Ben Wharton — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:46:58 +0000

Nah, I think in the spirit of the original author, I think we should let the market decide. {}:_)*(

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 06:49:27 +0000

Sorry Ben. I must try harder

By: Ben Wharton

Ben Wharton — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 06:42:36 +0000

Worse than being mis-quoted/mis-blogged is the quality of Hugh’s recent cards. Bad stand-up comedy (crude, no laughs, no incite) I can go for elsewhere.
Perhaps the real Hugh has been kidnapped and an imposter has taken control of his Blog.
Is this the new crime of the post-brand marketing age?

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 06:00:05 +0000

Hmmm.… whatever. Doesn’t sound like that big a deal. I thought at first it could be something more weird than that.
This is what happens when you read everything through an RSS reader. You miss things. Arrrgh.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 04:37:29 +0000

This did appear in the RSS feed for your "are you afraid to blog" article. I distinctly remember it because I'd already skimmed through it on Scoble's blog, but when you wrote "If you don't get it"... I made a point of reading it again on your blog.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 02:14:05 +0000

Hugh, It looks as if a quote of Scoble was mistakenly attributed to you: http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/10/19.html#a8431 Scroll down to Scoble's observation #6 and you'll see it.

By: Brian Field

Brian Field — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:10:27 +0000

This is from a Scoble article. I can’t recall if it’s the same article you linked to (Are you afraid to blog?) or if it was one of the other pieces on his blog page that day. I guess some people assume that everything you link to is your work…