Comments on: Act 2: Buyer’s Remorse http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/02/29/act-2-buyers-remorse/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:44:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris Yeh http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/02/29/act-2-buyers-remorse/comment-page-1/#comment-235954 Chris Yeh Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:33:52 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/02/29/act-2-buyers-remorse/#comment-235954 I will say this after reading through both blogger and MSM coverage of the Google Sites launch--while there were plenty of bloggers who took Google's statements at face value, there were also a number of them (including you and your fellow irregulars) who actually bothered to try using the product. In contrast, the proportion of MSM reporters who had actually bothered to try the product was close to zero. Otherwise they might have noted more of the problems that people had actually logging in, using the product, etc. Heck, even if they had just bothered to really test out the demo sites, they would have discovered that many of the documents simply didn't work! I will say this after reading through both blogger and MSM coverage of the Google Sites launch–while there were plenty of bloggers who took Google’s statements at face value, there were also a number of them (including you and your fellow irregulars) who actually bothered to try using the product.

In contrast, the proportion of MSM reporters who had actually bothered to try the product was close to zero. Otherwise they might have noted more of the problems that people had actually logging in, using the product, etc. Heck, even if they had just bothered to really test out the demo sites, they would have discovered that many of the documents simply didn’t work!

]]> By: Nimish Mehta http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/02/29/act-2-buyers-remorse/comment-page-1/#comment-235346 Nimish Mehta Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:59:59 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2008/02/29/act-2-buyers-remorse/#comment-235346 Jeff - right on! This "lack of analysis" in the blogosphere is really bothersome to me as well. Mind you, I'm no Microsoft fan, and my comments are not about whether Sharepoint is a great tool or not, but the larger point you are making around the need to be first vs the need to do some critical thinking. You could argue that news media in general faces this struggle between being first vs being insightful. Except for one important difference: branded news media (meaning WSJ, Washington Post, etc) stake their reputation on accuracy and therefore even if they rush to report something, it is (for the most part:-)) factually accurate. The blogosphere allows for all people to contribute and only a very few of them are staking their personal reputations on accuracy of their posts... I would love to hear on novel ways to address this issue (other than reader ratings etc)... Nimish Jeff – right on! This “lack of analysis” in the blogosphere is really bothersome to me as well. Mind you, I’m no Microsoft fan, and my comments are not about whether Sharepoint is a great tool or not, but the larger point you are making around the need to be first vs the need to do some critical thinking.

You could argue that news media in general faces this struggle between being first vs being insightful. Except for one important difference: branded news media (meaning WSJ, Washington Post, etc) stake their reputation on accuracy and therefore even if they rush to report something, it is (for the most part:-)) factually accurate.

The blogosphere allows for all people to contribute and only a very few of them are staking their personal reputations on accuracy of their posts…

I would love to hear on novel ways to address this issue (other than reader ratings etc)…

Nimish

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