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AccMan TalkBack: The mouse and the elephant – or how mainstream media censored a reader

  • vinnie mirchandani · 3 years ago
    the second part - not in our commercial interest - shows how little they understand communities and ecosystems...
  • David Terrar · 3 years ago
    Their tactics confuse me. They should be embracing the kind of technology at the heart of the quick application topic Stuart highlighted, be promoting it to help their practice audience, and not be threatened by it. And as Vinnie implies, they've misunderstood that the fundamental law of the Internet seems to be the more you send them away the more they come back.
  • Dennis Howlett · 3 years ago
    There's a golden rule in PR - don't mess with someone who has a barrel of ink - update - don't mess with someone with a potential audience of 27 million and counting - and doesn't need ink, overheads, staff, buildings, bank loans, shareholders, derivatives, Living dead software etc etc
  • james governor · 3 years ago
    lovely phrase David - "the more you send them away the more they come back"....

    I call it "being less competitive by being more competitive" - but i think i may prefer your formulation.

    you got banned for pointing to ning? holy shit that is absurd. do accountingweb readers want to know more about cool tools to make knowledge apps in accounting more useful. no probably not. why would they want that.

    to be honest dennis you're right. give it another 12 months of blogging at the rate you are and you potentially wont be far off their readership....
  • David Terrar · 3 years ago
    Hi James,
    It's a great phrase, but I can't take credit for it. I was quoting from here.
  • Stuart Jones · 3 years ago
    "do accountingweb readers want to know more about cool tools to make knowledge apps in accounting more useful. no probably not. why would they want that."

    Not all of us James! There are a few accountants (mainly those who you read here) who look ahead instead of pointing their arse (does that translate in the USA - should it be ASS?)in that direction!
  • Neil Wilson · 3 years ago
    It's not a good idea to upset anybody on the Internet. As the Chinese say - politeness costs nothing and the future is uncertain. That's true more today than ever.
  • james governor · 3 years ago
    its impossible not to upset anybody on the internet. any idea, no matter how seemingly innocuous, is going to really piss someone off...