OK, I'll admit it - I've been more influenced by Seth Godin's rants and raves over the past several years than any other pundit or marketing guru. If Reis & Trout were the mavens of the '80s, Seth has clearly supplanted them in the digital age. He has had a firmer grasp on the consumer and new media than anyone out there, and he's just so entertaining to read.
So, of course, I was especially taken with some of his recent comments on bloggers, and what makes them go:
"I think that blogging requires you to have a healthy respect for your opinions, as well as the generous desire to share them with others. That's not a negative social trait; if you don't respect your opinions, who will? And if you don't share the ideas you value, you're being selfish, aren't you?"
Couldn't have said it better.
Thanks for posting this, Fred.
Now Greg Gillespie and I
(your faithful Batman and Robin
of JacoBlog contributors) no longer
feel that we need to "get a life" !
Posted by: Dick Hungate | Friday, September 15, 2006 at 03:10 PM