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Friday, April 28, 2006

Guy Kawasaki: 120 day Blogging 'Expert'

I'm beginning to think that I should change the name of this blog to the daily FISKing of Guy Kawasaki.

So-called expert Guy Kawasaki (blogging 120 days and counting... and no, I'm not giving him a link unless he returns the favour) throws us more pearls about how to evangelize huckster our blogs.

It seems that one of his favorite pastimes is to email everyone that has the misfortune to come across his computer. Then again, Guy has his own unique definition of what constitutes spam:
"When I started this blog, I sent out 10,000 email announcements... for example, when a bozo includes you on a large carbon-copy email, mine the addresses."
I rather liked Dave Winer's response the best:
"Disclaim: Scripting News does not meet the high standards of 120-day blogger Guy Kawasaki."
Guy calls it "evangelizing". I call it a pain in the ass.

UPDATE: Better Bad News picks up the ball with "Who Gives a Shiitake". And the blogfather himself Dave Winer liked the post so much that he even linked to it. I'm honoured folks.
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At 7:25 PM, Anonymous sarah said...

Ho ho ho, you are sooooooo right.

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At 10:10 PM, Anonymous joshua said...

Kawasaki can call it what he wants but unsolicited mass emailing for commercial purposes is indeed SPAM. But I can tell you from personal experience that you will never get through to these "hucksters" as you so aptly put it. They are a blight on the blogosphere.

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At 2:55 AM, Anonymous skeptiks said...

Actually Kawasaki's definition of spam is as follows: "I define "spam" as sending email to someone who has never sent me one." He insists that you should be known by the recipient. Makes sense.
Better read full article.

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At 3:40 AM, Anonymous sam said...

Makes Sense? Not according to Wikipedia:

"Spamming is commonly defined as the sending of unsolicited bulk e-mail - that is, email that was not asked for (unsolicited) and received by multiple recipients (bulk). A further common definition of spam restricts it to unsolicited commercial e-mail."

Perhaps Kawasaki thinks he is above acceptable net practices?

Nice try.

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At 8:00 PM, Anonymous celia said...

Kawasaki please note: It makes no difference if the spammer (ie you) is "known by the recipient". The only exception perhaps would be if the email was acquired by an opt-in method and the usage of the email was made clear up-front. Eg., for the purposes of a newsletter. Mining addresses from so-called "bozos" that have carbon-copied you to huckster your wares is not exempt. It is still considered SPAM and the FISK is absolutely right. Maybe you should take a little time to learn the basics in net etiquette before influencing your gullible minions.

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At 8:14 PM, Blogger Dr. Chadblog said...

this is the nice things about RSS in comparison to email...you can always just hit 'unsubscribe'.

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At 8:50 PM, Blogger FISK! said...

Heh, thanks for the comments everyone. I'm loving it. I have it on good authority that Guy reads the daily FISK so maybe he'll learn something.

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I'm just thankful that I'm not on his mailing list.

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