Comments on: To Clay Shirky http://millionsofus.com/blog/2006/12/30/to-clay-shirky/ Social Media Agency creating movements for Brands - Millions of Us Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:09:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: auron http://millionsofus.com/blog/2006/12/30/to-clay-shirky/#comment-4432 auron Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:34:55 +0000 http://millionsofus.com/blog/archives/140#comment-4432 If a hard drive holds a billion bytes it is going to be called a GB even though it is 74 MB short. A DVR will be called an 80 hour unit even if it holds only 20 hours at the reasonably good quality setting. SL marketeers will report X new residents even if 10% are alts, 30% only logged in once and 15% only did the registration and never logged in at all. So what? Most people understand and process these things intuitively. What kills me about the whiners is their naiveté. Are they not old enough to have been through the experience of being sold their first car? And regarding, "...how Linden has managed to disable the fact-checking apparatus of much of the US business press, turning them into a zombie army of unpaid flacks...", when has the business press been anything else? Sounds to me like someone who has been brainwashed into thinking that journalism has some kind of tenured seat in a revered ivory tower somewhere. Journalists are selling that shit all the time - looks like this guy swallowed it. Get the ipecac quick. But the scary thing is the gall of the whiners. They come off as so vehement and righteous about the injustice of it all. But on what basis? Are they, or anyone, suffering any kind of damage? Are they complaining that this information has falsely lead them into committing to the $0 for their basic membership? Or maybe it is the difference between their $9.95 a month premium membership and the $7 a month they get back in stipends. Wow, such pain. Or maybe it comes from some sense of speculative injustice like those advertising fees that they would be falsely lead into paying if advertising existed. Or the shares of stock they would be falsely lead into buying if there were shares of stock that they could buy. If a hard drive holds a billion bytes it is going to be called a GB even though it is 74 MB short. A DVR will be called an 80 hour unit even if it holds only 20 hours at the reasonably good quality setting. SL marketeers will report X new residents even if 10% are alts, 30% only logged in once and 15% only did the registration and never logged in at all. So what? Most people understand and process these things intuitively.

What kills me about the whiners is their naiveté. Are they not old enough to have been through the experience of being sold their first car?

And regarding, “…how Linden has managed to disable the fact-checking apparatus of much of the US business press, turning them into a zombie army of unpaid flacks…”, when has the business press been anything else? Sounds to me like someone who has been brainwashed into thinking that journalism has some kind of tenured seat in a revered ivory tower somewhere. Journalists are selling that shit all the time - looks like this guy swallowed it. Get the ipecac quick.

But the scary thing is the gall of the whiners. They come off as so vehement and righteous about the injustice of it all. But on what basis? Are they, or anyone, suffering any kind of damage? Are they complaining that this information has falsely lead them into committing to the $0 for their basic membership? Or maybe it is the difference between their $9.95 a month premium membership and the $7 a month they get back in stipends. Wow, such pain.

Or maybe it comes from some sense of speculative injustice like those advertising fees that they would be falsely lead into paying if advertising existed. Or the shares of stock they would be falsely lead into buying if there were shares of stock that they could buy.

]]> By: Crissa http://millionsofus.com/blog/2006/12/30/to-clay-shirky/#comment-4250 Crissa Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:06:52 +0000 http://millionsofus.com/blog/archives/140#comment-4250 ...It's not like Linden Lab's numbers are any better or worse than any other company. Even Blizzard counts trial accounts and Beta players; and they don't say 7 million logged in last month. …It’s not like Linden Lab’s numbers are any better or worse than any other company.

Even Blizzard counts trial accounts and Beta players; and they don’t say 7 million logged in last month.

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