I’m just not “with it” anymore
August 3, 2006 9 Comments
Reader Erin sent me a link to a comment on a recent post over at AllPointBlog.com.
…give “ya” what- that spatiallink_org was up and running long before? Thanks, but we don’t seek your validation. I and our users have been reading our aggregations since 2004, just run a WHOIS.
And nothing is plain and simple about your subjective, need I add arrogant, claim. For our users, we are the hub and on and on…
Also, ours is a team effort- I don’t go around plastering the internet with an egomaniacal zeal, selfishly promoting myself or my chosen vendor and attempting to make pennies from ad clicks in the process.
The facts speak for themselves: spatiallink_org links professionals from 14 states and 8 countries, partners with not-for-profit agencies, etc. If you and those you know aren’t faintly aware of that, you are not “with it” and/or you don’t know enough people and/or you don’t appreciate the poly-centric nature of our vast professional world.
Yikes back to you!
Lorriana
Honestly this is the first time I’ve ever heard of spatiallink.org. I must not be “with it”, “know enough people” and “don’t appreciate the poly… yada yada yada”…. Talk about arrogant and condescending. I wasn’t subscribed before and I sure won’t now.
Oh and I had no idea that a WHOIS lookup could determine what people were doing in the past with their domain names.
I guess I just need to keep reaching for the stars…
About James Fee
James you continue to keep me laughing.
“keep reaching for the stars…” and they you tag the post “caseykasem”.
I can’t wait to meet you at the meetup. I’ll share a beer with you anytime you are in Seattle.
Wow, the other comment by one of their “professionals” is just as bad as this one.
/me thinks they don’t understand the internet very well if they tell people to perform a WHOIS and claim that says they have been around for years.
Really, who cares how long anyone of these sites have been around (no offense James). I just go to whatever works best for me. Between this blog, allpoints and planet geospatial, I get all I need and you continue to make me laugh. You are the big man in online GIS blogging.
Actually Larry, there are tons of people who have no clue who the heck I am or even that I have a blog. I might have lots of readers in our little circle, but in the grand scheme of GIS as a whole I’m not even a blip on the screen.
A Google search for GIS doesn’t even register my blog. I do take pride in the fact that a Google seach for “adjusted” results in my blog as the top result.
OK, maybe that is true, but you are the #1 result for GIS blog in Google.
http://www.google.com/search?q=GIS+Blog&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
My first reaction is WTF? The second reaction is what a bunch of losers. I mean how is this building a community if they treat the community as a bunch of rednecks who never saw a computer before in their life.
Age does not bring wisdom, that is for sure. It appears they learned nothing in their years of experience cultivating a GIS community.
Then again, maybe this is why we never heard of them
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“I guess I just need to keep reaching for the stars…”
I know you James, you can’t even find your arms.
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