Ok, well maybe this fresh attack comes in the hopes that you would get me to breakdown and defend myself again. All I can say then is that technically, your logic is not applicable because you make it seem as though I have been hitting you or something. All I said to you Verdi is that you are a pro at ripping a sentence fragment out of context and even better than anyone at universalizing.
Lets take a look at how you broke into this post. Instead of being defensive, I just want to show how you entered into the conversation. As you can see below, its very aggressive, you were very guilty of universalizing and you assumed that it was you I was talking to all this time, a problem you may want to look more closely at since I had never mentioned you before this. So again, here is how you entered into the thread out of left-field: "Why is it that you seem to think that individuals that videoblog are doing it in the pursuit of personal celebrity? Why can't they be doing it to document their lives or to connect with friends and family? Are you saying that anyone who publishes a blog, podcast or videoblog that contains information about their lives is aiming for personal celebrity? Is that what you're doing at dembot.com? Or, playing devil's advocate, couldn't someone make a case that Rocketboom is a vehicle to enhance Amanda's personal celebrity thereby hopefully producing offers of acting jobs? It seems to me that you throw around these comments (this one and others in the past) about individuals videoblogging as if what they (we) are doing is less valid, less bloggy, and now, it seems, to advance our own personal celebrity as if we were some scheming college student trying to get picked for the next Real World cast. Verdi" Verdi's first weigh in on the police post On Nov 21, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Verdi wrote: > > Okay, let me try again. For those of you who don't know, I'm not > against Rocketboom or the idea of creating a videoblogging "show." > Earlier this year I spent a month working on Rocketboom as the > editor. Also, sometime early 2006 you may just see a "show" from > me. That being said, what I take exception to is what David has > pointed out - Andrew's statements. > > Now Andrew, you may feel that I've got it all out of context and that > you didn't mean those things that way. Yep. > Let me just tell you that I > and others read them, the way they are worded, as dismissive and > patronizing. Out of context. > Again you may "think" we have it wrong but that doesn't > change the words. Nope. > You can think of it like this: Let's say you > accidentally hit me and say, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hit you." Yep. > I'd respond, "no problem, it's okay." Then let's say it happens > again. If it did. > This time I might ask you to be more careful. If you were thinking. > Then let's say > it happens a third time. Three times hu? Wow, strike out. > Now I might start to think something is > up. Might you? > I might start to think that you really mean to hit me even > though you claim that you "didn't mean it." At some point, after > this has gone on a half dozen or so times, I'd get pretty pissed > off. Why wait that long to get upset is someone hit you that many times? But you said "you". Who are we talking about me? > I'd start to defend myself. So now you understand defense. > I might even hit back. I wouldnt mean to hit back, but yea, you can understand where that comes from. > See, just > blaming me for not understanding that your intent is different than > your words just doesn't cut it. Who ever blamed you? I just said I didnt want to see you naked. Thats the extent of any criticsm I have had for you. You must be assuming I think about you a lot and refer to you when I speak out. Not the case. > > -Verdi > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
