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Now it looks like I might have rubbed a few people at the WHIR the wrong way with my commentary on how the only folks that are commenting on WHIR blogs are the other WHIR writers. It’s funny this catches their attention and me mentioning that WHIR TV would be a lot better with Anastasia Tubanos in a bikini doesn’t. For the post that started all of this - click here.

Let me comment on something Liam Eagle said though:

Mitch seems to think he’s unraveling some sort of conspiracy. But this is hardly a revelation. It ought to be patently obvious to anyone reading the WHIR blogs that we’re posting comments on each other’s entries. We’re certainly not doing it in secret.

Nobody said it was a secret.

The reason I thought it was funny is that the Web Host Industry Review is one of the biggest dogs in the fight. They are the “leaders of the pack” in some people’s eyes. When you look at other Web hosting leaders blog (take Bob Parsons for example) he gets comments all over the place. Why isn’t the WHIR Blog team getting the same reaction? That is what I thought was “odd” and then “funny”.

Just to make it clear yet again, just because I might question or highlight what the WHIR is doing doesn’t mean there is a “negative meaning” behind it. Heck, I even wrote for the WHIR once upon a time (did one article too my whole month there :)).

One thing that the WHIR does very well is Web hosting news. I am in no way, shape or form in competition with the WHIR team. They have a bigger budget, a bigger team, and more leverage in the business than a little old Web hosting podcaster like me has. I am only trying to bring attention to what I see.

Now one more comment on what Liam had to say in his own comment:

Hey Mitch. I was going to reply here, but I thought maybe nobody would see it, so I put something up on my blog. :)

Yes Liam, maybe nobody would have seen it here, but then again - where did WHIR TV go anyways?

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Filed Under: Web Hosting on October 26, 2006 at 7:01 pm

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thats awesome. man, nobody should be putting you down just for some feedback.

Okay, Mitch, here you raise an interesting question you didn’t raise in the earlier post.

I can see first-hand from the stats that plenty of people are reading the WHIR blogs, but so far only a few are posting comments. Why?

I think the relative shortage of user comments on the WHIR blogs is the result of a couple of things. First, I think the blogs are just starting to get rolling, since they’re less than three weeks old. More importantly, I think WHIR readers are not used to interacting with the publication. Part of the reason we started the blogs was to give readers a forum not just for feedback, but to contribute their own ideas.

And I hope that by posting comments on each other’s blogs, we can help to get the ball rolling with more user comments. Actually (and here’s something that actually IS funny) I think this little interaction between you and I may help to spark some more user input too.

Now, if I may, I’d like to clear up a couple things:

First, with regard to the previous comment, I think it’s pretty clear that I didn’t put Mitch down. In fact, I referred to him as “a nice guy,” which he is. He criticized. I just explained where I thought he was mistaken.

Secondly, Mitch, I understand you’re saying there was no “negative meaning” to the comments in your first post, but I find it pretty difficult to believe I’ve somehow misinterpreted the phrase: “They are sitting around and commenting on each others different posts so they look more busy.”

You seemed concerned, and I wanted to make sure you understood what we’re doing.

[...] I don’t know if this is more funny or sad. After my public duel with the WHIR last week, I had better not say it is funny. [...]

Brad King said on October 31, 2006 @ 7:07 pm

The main problem with the whir is it thinks it is better than everybody else.

[...] I might have given them a rib or two when they first started, but I do have to say that the WHIR’s blog section is getting better over time. I have really been enjoying some of the content they have been putting up the last few weeks and I hope there is more good content to come. [...]

[...] I don’t know if this is more funny or sad. After my public duel with the WHIR last week, I had better not say it is funny. [...]

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