Comments on: Why IT should listen to Palin http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/ Startup and Technology News Sun, 23 Jun 2013 22:07:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: echovar » Blog Archive » Permission To Go Live: Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-3719 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:01:56 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-3719 [...] Steve Gillmor writes about the way the companies communicate, through official static planned releases of information or with live conversations through the Network. Real work gets done in these conversations, and typically this work is being performed in the “open” because the participants realize (and have been given “permission” to work at this live level) that they have little to fear from competition because their access to participation trumps others who by definition have to react after the fact. Not only has the value moved on to the next set of conversations, but the product of this work is now being marketed to the audience most likely to buy it. [...]

]]> By: echovar » Blog Archive » Permission To Go Live: Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-17041 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:01:56 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-17041 [...] Steve Gillmor writes about the way the companies communicate, through official static planned releases of information or with live conversations through the Network. Real work gets done in these conversations, and typically this work is being performed in the “open” because the participants realize (and have been given “permission” to work at this live level) that they have little to fear from competition because their access to participation trumps others who by definition have to react after the fact. Not only has the value moved on to the next set of conversations, but the product of this work is now being marketed to the audience most likely to buy it. [...]

]]> By: MikeyJ. http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-3718 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:01:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-3718 What a wonderful analogy: how many times have you all participated in meetings where IT’s stock response is NO – NO – and NO to the small stuff that the line of business is begging, but are always keen to tender their [IT] vote to those once in a decade projects tendered by the old boys at IBM, SAP or EDS (sic). Palin might not exactly be web 2 – but Gilmores view in my view is not such a long bow. Is SMS, IM or presence more is less likely to impact profit than a 5 yr SAP implementation? Perhaps another way – what is the benefit of IT’s perfectly normalised data structure to that random idea developed over a 5 minute IM. How different is this to a young Austrian patent clerk doing a little part time physics?

]]> By: MikeyJ. http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-17040 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:01:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-17040 What a wonderful analogy: how many times have you all participated in meetings where IT’s stock response is NO – NO – and NO to the small stuff that the line of business is begging, but are always keen to tender their [IT] vote to those once in a decade projects tendered by the old boys at IBM, SAP or EDS (sic). Palin might not exactly be web 2 – but Gilmores view in my view is not such a long bow. Is SMS, IM or presence more is less likely to impact profit than a 5 yr SAP implementation? Perhaps another way – what is the benefit of IT’s perfectly normalised data structure to that random idea developed over a 5 minute IM. How different is this to a young Austrian patent clerk doing a little part time physics?

]]> By: Michael C. Neel http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-3717 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:59:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-3717 This “straight talk” is also the same tactic used when someone doesn’t understand the subject matter. It might sound good to someone who doesn’t know the actual problems, but to anyone clued in its seen as total BS. I would caution greatly any IT person from adopting this “Palin Speak” – if the company is hemoraging money you better be talking about stopping the bleeding and not jump topics to something that is not going to address the problems.

]]> By: Michael C. Neel http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-17039 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:59:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-17039 This “straight talk” is also the same tactic used when someone doesn’t understand the subject matter. It might sound good to someone who doesn’t know the actual problems, but to anyone clued in its seen as total BS. I would caution greatly any IT person from adopting this “Palin Speak” – if the company is hemoraging money you better be talking about stopping the bleeding and not jump topics to something that is not going to address the problems.

]]> By: Mitch Rosen http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-3716 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:14:00 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-3716 He’s definitely high. Wtf does sarah palins shitty ass performance have to do with IT? Weird ass dude and weird ass posts.

]]> By: Mitch Rosen http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-17038 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:14:00 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-17038 He’s definitely high. Wtf does sarah palins shitty ass performance have to do with IT? Weird ass dude and weird ass posts.

]]> By: st http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-3715 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:08:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-3715 Good article – it’s a pity YOU don’t know how to spell ‘verbiage’.

]]> By: st http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-17037 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:08:29 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-17037 Good article – it’s a pity YOU don’t know how to spell ‘verbiage’.

]]> By: Jack http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-3714 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:44:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-3714 I’m impressed, Steve! In this latest of your attempts to combine analysis of political and technical events of the day, you almost succeeded in providing a balanced and insightful perspective (up until your very last sentence.)

You just had to add that last little equivocation, alluding to Palin’s supposed need for a ghost writer, didn’t you? Given the format of the debate, it is doubtful that queries to the VP candidates could have been anticipated and pre-scripted, but somehow you could not let a post go by without casting doubt on the competency of the conservative participant.

You might well have questioned the absence of veracity in the many ‘facts’ that Obiden uttered in his turns of pontification…but for some reason, you chose not to do so?

Oh well…You still deserve kudos, for improvement over past propaganda.

Jack

]]> By: Jack http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-17036 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:44:21 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-17036 I’m impressed, Steve! In this latest of your attempts to combine analysis of political and technical events of the day, you almost succeeded in providing a balanced and insightful perspective (up until your very last sentence.)

You just had to add that last little equivocation, alluding to Palin’s supposed need for a ghost writer, didn’t you? Given the format of the debate, it is doubtful that queries to the VP candidates could have been anticipated and pre-scripted, but somehow you could not let a post go by without casting doubt on the competency of the conservative participant.

You might well have questioned the absence of veracity in the many ‘facts’ that Obiden uttered in his turns of pontification…but for some reason, you chose not to do so?

Oh well…You still deserve kudos, for improvement over past propaganda.

Jack

]]> By: michael arrington http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-3713 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:45:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-3713 totally agree.

by the way, tried to join gillmor gang today and you would not believe the shit i had to go through. I was on a phone that only had dial tone, not beep tone. so when you hit buttons it makes that clicking sound. impossible to navigate a phone tree. threw the phone against the wall. problem solved.

]]> By: michael arrington http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-17035 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:45:38 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-17035 totally agree.

by the way, tried to join gillmor gang today and you would not believe the shit i had to go through. I was on a phone that only had dial tone, not beep tone. so when you hit buttons it makes that clicking sound. impossible to navigate a phone tree. threw the phone against the wall. problem solved.

]]> By: jeneane http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-3712 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:51:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-3712 “straight talk?”

oh god.

]]> By: jeneane http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-17034 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:51:51 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-17034 “straight talk?”

oh god.

]]> By: Amyloo http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-3711 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:29:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-3711 These ideas kind of follow on from your Gillmor Gang interview with the SocialText guy. Wouldn’t it be interesting to persuade a typical IT person to come on the Gang and be grilled about some of these things?

]]> By: Amyloo http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-17033 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:29:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-17033 These ideas kind of follow on from your Gillmor Gang interview with the SocialText guy. Wouldn’t it be interesting to persuade a typical IT person to come on the Gang and be grilled about some of these things?

]]> By: ceejayoz http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-3710 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:10:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-3710 Seconded.

]]> By: ceejayoz http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/why-it-should-listen-to-palin/#comment-17032 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:10:52 +0000 http://www.techcrunchit.com/?p=530#comment-17032 Seconded.

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