Comments on: Cultural Sanctimony: Can the Digital World Overcome its Arrogance?

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:55:45 +0000

Jonathan,

You’re welcome. Sorry it took so long:-))

- Greg

By: Jonathan Iafeliece

Jonathan Iafeliece — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:22:07 +0000

Finally ! Thank you, Greg.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:48:56 +0000

Kelly,

Glad to hear it. Good luck with your acting career!

- Greg

By: Kelli Garner

Kelli Garner — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:16:31 +0000

Really nice posts. I will be checking back here regularly.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:01:41 +0000

Frank,

I’ve don’t think journalists in any medium are crazy about press releases. At least not the ones I’ve worked with.

- Greg

By: FMJohnson

FMJohnson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:42:05 +0000

Just a thought: is a symptom of this illness the unbearable arrogance of reporters and bloggers that cover the digital space who disdain press releases and story pitches? (Unless they come via Twitter, of course.) I doubt that a writer for an industrial pub or a financial Web site would write some of the ugly things I’ve seen coming from the digerati whenever a PR person does something as gauche as call them with a pitch or e-mail them a press release (personally, not as spam).

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:52:02 +0000

Bob,

Thank you for your kind words and your insights.

- Greg

By: Bob Westrope

Bob Westrope — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:54:18 +0000

There are times I read something and really wish I had written it. This is one of those occassions. Well done!

The digerati has a fascination with hearing their own voice. One of the problems with intellectual discourse in the digital age is that the basic premise is “if I think it so, it must be”. It is disappointing that such a liberating technology should so quickly lead to the formation of yet another orthodoxy.

Having said that, perhaps the legacy of the post dot.com business generation is to view the Internet as the enabling utility that it is, rather then the end itself. It is a toolset that certainly has resulted in the creation of many new marketplaces, but its greatest potential (still unrealized) lies is in making exisiting marketplaces (notably media) far more efficient and accessible.

I suppose for the time being one can only be amused by those who prefer to work within the simplicity of silo’s instead of the fluid, elegant and inter-dependent reallity of a multi-media, multi-channel world.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:25:21 +0000

Steve,

Thx. I never got the whole “thought leader” thing. It always made me visualize a bunch of fat guys in suits sitting indian style in an ashram:-))

I really liked Mark’s post. I just posted something similar called “Consultants and Confused Apes” you can see it here: http://www.digitaltonto.com/archives/452

- Greg

By: Steve Dodd

Steve Dodd — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:50:13 +0000

Greg, your perspective on this subject is right on. There is so much more to “Social Media” than marketing / advertising. The real value proposition will be realized once we expand our thinking. A good friend of mine, Mark Schaefer, published a blog a few days ago that really riled up some emotions on this whole topic. His perspective was more about the “Thought Leaders” in the industry and how they tend to suppress this kind of thinking. This is not an attempt to “Spam” your blog but your comments on this would be really valuable.
http://businessesgrow.com/2009/09/21/the-social-media-country-club/
Thanks again for communicating such clear thinking!