Results tagged “valleywag”

Lots of nice writing out there that either replies to or references some recent posts here. Highlights:

• Dictatorship Versus Democracy in app store politics at Fast Company, by the always-genius Gina Trapani. A clear contrast between Mozilla and Apple's approaches, and the many other app stores that use similar models as well.
• Slashdot (remember that site?) picked up the conversation about an open app store with a few insightful comments on the thread. It was more striking to me that I wrote a post that got Slashdotted, and didn't notice. Valleywag predictably went a little darker on this topic, as Gawker's Ryan Tate offered up "Beware the Garden of Steven".
• After I posted a small catalog of app stores here, ReadWriteWeb took the idea and ran with it, asking developers, "Can You Take Your Mobile App Somewhere Else?" Good question!

Did I miss any other good responses? Nothing's more satisfying than seeing people use ideas here as raw materials for their own work elsewhere.

Hmm, much as I love Valleywag, there's some factual inaccuracies in the loving tribute posted about me today. It asserts that a Vault.com story says that I was trying to spam people with my resume when I was out of work before joining Six Apart.

But, if you refer to my note at the time, you can see the story's actually from early 2001, well before Six Apart or even Movable Type existed.

The context is kind of important, since this was right after the (first?) dot-com bubble burst and it was a rough time to be in technology in NYC. But a few lean months later I got my job at the Voice and all was well.

As I said in the comments on Valleywag, you're goddamn right I was emailing every person I could about finding a good job. I was also blogging like crazy, writing some of my best stuff. And I was trying to go out and meet new people too, since I really didn't know anybody in the industry. Those tactics might seem old-fashioned now that every kid with a PowerBook thinks he can make something to flip to Yahoo, but I still think they're a good idea if you want to establish yourself. It's only five years later and some anonymous somebody is spending his time searching for my name on Vault instead of finding a better job. There's a lot more I'd like to accomplish before I'd consider myself a success, but I take no small satisfaction in having gone from nowhere to somewhere over the past five years.