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1 - @3 - That was famous? I must be funnier than I thought.

Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 08:08:01 AM On 07/15/2009 | - Website - |

2 - Don't be silly! It's out there with Surjit Chana's blog.

Um...

Posted by Ben Poole At 07:49:53 AM On 07/15/2009 | - Website - |

3 - The Fake-Kristen thing *could* have been funny. But. It. Wasn't. It just fails in so many ways, taste being only one.

Whoever wrote it should be embarrassed.
My $0.02

Posted by Bob Balaban At 01:29:43 PM On 07/15/2009 | - Website - |

4 - Dangerous asking that question. Nathan famously stated that he liked his bridges 'unburnt' (when commenting on what I was doing)


A compliant bubble is a happy bubble.


---* Bill

Posted by Bill At 03:53:26 AM On 07/15/2009 | - Website - |

5 - If you look hard enough I'm sure you will find it.

Posted by Devin Olson At 08:54:00 AM On 07/15/2009 | - Website - |

6 - HAHA!

Posted by David Leedy At 05:58:05 AM On 07/15/2009 | - Website - |

7 - @Bill, what bridge have I burnt? If Kristen's job title makes the absence of a blog ironic, then my entire post was rhetorical. Otherwise it's just some guy looking for a URL. In either case, I wrote a couple sentences posing a question, not a multi-page diatribe blasting an entire corporation and coining a new epithet for the community I've been involved with for over a decade.

Oh....... I get it now: if I single out a particular individual to question, I'm an "attack kitten"; if I negatively paint with a broad brush hundreds of thousands of people, I'm simply one of the "cool kids"... although I have a suspicion my college history professor would disagree.

Posted by Tim Tripcony At 10:39:09 AM On 07/15/2009 | - Website - |

8 - @Ed, I agree... I shouldn't have encouraged the author by linking to it, and have since removed the link.

In my opinion, you've always responded elegantly to both praise and criticism - even when some of that criticism has been tasteless. The impression I gained of Kristen at Lotusphere was that she would approach community interaction with a similar amount of class, and have been anxiously awaiting that form of community engagement ever since. I apologize if my post implied that I think she (or anyone else) is an acceptable target for verbal abuse.

Posted by Tim Tripcony At 02:08:51 PM On 07/15/2009 | - Website - |

9 - Are you sure Nathan didn't hax0r your boxen and post this as you?

Posted by Charles Robinson At 10:30:40 AM On 07/15/2009 | - Website - |

10 - So that fake blog that is being referred to here actually makes a point I was going to write here last night and initially thought better of it. What upside is there for the Lotus brand VP of marketing to hang themselves out in public to be attacked on a blog? I have talked with Kristen about guest blogging on edbrill.com, and believe we'll do that soon, but on an ongoing basis? There's a difference between thick skin and punching bag.

Posted by Ed Brill At 01:49:31 PM On 07/15/2009 | - Website - |

11 - Would never expect a marketing person to blog, they don't like the limelight.

Posted by Keith Brooks At 10:10:20 AM On 07/15/2009 | - Website - |

12 - *snicker*

Posted by Rob McDonagh At 01:24:09 AM On 07/15/2009 | - Website - |

13 - Um, that fake blog is in incredibly poor taste and whoever put it up would do well to pull the plug asap. Frustration is understandable but that is not a helpful way to convey it.

Posted by Kevin Pettitt At 12:50:27 PM On 07/15/2009 | - Website - |

14 - @Charles, nope, he's in LocalDomainAdmins, so he could have if he wanted to, but these were not his words. Or his idea. I was curious about something and chose to express it.

Posted by Tim Tripcony At 10:44:18 AM On 07/15/2009 | - Website - |

15 - LOL!

Posted by Stuart McIntyre At 12:37:57 AM On 07/15/2009 | - Website - |