You can try to “control the conversation,” but it’s only an illusion.
Marketing guru Seth Godin is selling a new “service” to aggregate mentions of a company’s brand. He’s going to aggregate you whether you want it or not, and for a fee he’ll allow you to edit half the page. (Here’s my full commentary on that.)
That’s like putting honey pots around a picnic area, then charging people for the right to use the tables with ant-repellent.
Seth is somewhat famous for using his blog to promote his personal brand and his books, and is even more notorious for not allowing comments on his blog. You know, to control the conversation.
Except now Google is offering a new service called SideWiki, which allows users to add their own annotation to any web page, and see all the things other people have written.
Goose. Gander.
I love how you pulled these pieces together. Brilliant!
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@heatherrast Thanks, Heather, but I inadvertently put the wrong link. Try this one: [link to post].
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[Corrected] Still think you can control the conversation? @ikepigott points out the problem: [link to post] Brilliant.
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The dangers of multitasking… copy | paste only goes so far (and really did mean to link to @ikepigott’s great post ([link to post] ).
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RT @BethHarte: ‘You Can’t Stop the Signal’ (aka ‘Seth Godin gets Punk’d’ by Sitewiki): [link to post] from @IkePigott
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brilliant: ‘You Can’t Stop the Signal’ (aka ‘Seth Godin gets Punk’d’ by Sitewiki): [link to post] from @IkePigott via @bethharte
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@gregverdino What people seem to be ignoring here is that tons of power is being handed to Google, not the consumer. #DoubleEdgedSword
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RT @gregverdino: brilliant: ‘You Can’t Stop the Signal’ (aka ‘Seth Godin gets Punk’d’ by Sitewiki): [link to post] from @IkePigott
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@kenburbary Ken, check out some more social media monitoring tools in my Digital Footprint post 2 add 2 ur gr8 list! http://bit.ly/XuNOf
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RT @conniereece: RT @BethHarte: ‘You Can’t Stop the Signal’ (aka ‘Seth Godin gets Punk’d’ by Sitewiki): [link to post] from @IkePigott
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You Can’t Stop the Signal’ (aka ‘Seth Godin gets Punk’d’ by Sitewiki): [link to post] from @IkePigott (via @BethHarte)
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‘You Can’t Stop the Signal’ (aka ‘Seth Godin gets Punk’d’ by Sitewiki): [link to post] from @IkePigott
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RT @steve_hartley You Can’t Stop the Signal (aka Seth Godin gets Punkd by Sitewiki): [link to post] from @IkePigott >Say it ain’t so!!
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Adding Google Sidewiki to list of things I need to learn more about… Reading “You Can’t Stop the Signal” [link to post] by @ikepigott
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Ha! This is great. But folks, it’s SideWiki. 😉
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‘You Can’t Stop the Signal’ (aka ‘Seth Godin gets Punk’d’ by SideWiki): [link to post] from @IkePigott
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You Can’t Stop the Signal (aka Seth Godin gets punk’d by SideWiki) [link to post] by @ikepigott
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RT @mediaphyter ‘You Can’t Stop the Signal’ (aka ‘Seth Godin gets Punk’d’ by SideWiki): [link to post] from @IkePigott
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Fascinating: “You Can’t Stop the Signal (aka Seth Godin gets punk’d by SideWiki)” [link to post] (via @ikepigott)
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RT @mediaphyter: ‘You Cant Stop the Signal’ (aka ‘Seth Godin gets Punk’d’ by SideWiki): [link to post] from @IkePigott
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RT @mediaphyter: ‘You Can’t Stop the Signal’ (aka ‘Seth Godin gets Punk’d’ by SideWiki): [link to post] from @IkePigott
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“The astonishing thing is not that the cat is out of the bag but that the bag vanishes the moment we see the cat..” .. so said Physician, circa 1981
http://bit.ly/mJFur
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Occams’s RazR sorta calls out Seth Godin (we sorta agree) [link to post]
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RT @ikepigott: Some new Occamtude: You Can’t Stop the Signal [link to post]
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See this link and then rethink what the hell you are saying about sidewiki.
Open your damn eyes.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Toolbar/thread?tid=65cd1ca77affd341&hl=en&fid=65cd1ca77affd341000474c549416254
I’m not sure which side you think I am on.
Wow, how much does that suck.