Interesting blog post - comments anyone?

[Bob Sneidar]

OMG the aliens have stolen your sensibility! Your original post has been countered by virtually everyone! Doesn't that wave a yellow flag in your head somewhere? You stand alone on this, and for good reason! If you don't want to post on the blog, then DON'T POST ON THE BLOG! But DON"T revile Heather for asking us to review and opt in on a blog that clearly interests almost everyone here! That was RUDE of you. 

There I said what you were all trying to say diplomatically. 

Bob


On Nov 29, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Randall Reetz wrote:

> The slippery (or in this case "invisible") slope of "gorilla" PR is powerful especially and only because it sneeks so silently and politely under our BS radar.  So called "multi-level" marketing proponents have known this forever.  Sell to "friends" and your effectiveness skyrockets.  Any activity that acts "friendly" but has a commercial motivation fits this category.  We have become so used to having it done to us (and doing it ourselves) that we don't still have that hair up sensation that used to be our reaction.  But the result is a hardening, a loss of the separate sameness that used to be reserved only for the category "friends and family".  Now we expect to be targets of the misuse of that privilege.  An arms war where the winner can only result in the loss of real trust and the very real need for a sanctuary away from "pitch" and "spin".  We can't have our guard up all of the time.  Too costly.  Neither can we let go of the distinction between authenticity and huckstering.  Subtle but important.  The old warning, "Never cry wolf", never had as much relevance. And none of this has anything to do with the actual topic of the relevance of the xtalk programming family.  That is sad.
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